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Community Shares of Illinois
COMMUNITY SHARES OF ILLINOIS represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $49,876 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,785 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,909 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIE | $29,607 |
| WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY | $7,187 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE | $6,984 |
| FEEDING OUR KIDS | $6,098 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Community Shares of Illinois’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +123% since the first grant, against +104% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $248k · revenue +77%
- APANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +207%
- CCCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- PAPRAIRIE AIR INC DBA WEFT RADIOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +104%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The champaign county humane association owns and operates the paws animal shelter. the mission is to provide food and shelter to abandoned and strayed animals.
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
To provide a refuge for unwanted and/or abandoned dogs and cats, provide pet adoption, pet trainng, neutering and medical treatment, and rehabilitation, with no euthanization unless in the case of incurable illness.
The organization was founded to raise awareness of chicago animal care and control (cacc), provide extra care for the animals at the shelter beyond the city's resources and help more animals to find new homes.
Care and shelter program for the adoption of animals
Rehabilitate and preserve abandoned and stray animals that are commonly found in the pet trade.
All-breed dog rescue -- We rescue, provide vital care, and adopt out dogs in the Chicagoland area. We also place an emphasis on educating the public about responsible pet ownership and ways to help lessen the pet overpopulation problem…
Preventing cruelty to animals
Non profit dog park
Chicago Cat Rescue is a not-for-profit licensed animal rescue organization The organization provides shelter food and medical care for homeless cats and kittens All donations raised and expenses incurred are used expressly for these…
Rescue, care, and adoption services for pets
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champaign County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Prairie Air Inc Dba Weft Radio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Forever Home Feline Ranch - NFP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING OUR KIDS ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE AIR INC DBA WEFT RADIO ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Shares of Illinois funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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