Illinois · Public charity
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. Whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing poverty and disease, we are a resource providing options to help people make positive change in their…
- $107k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $50k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,187
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,607
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $259k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Community Shares of Illinois funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $54k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $49k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $84k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champaign County Humane Society | $247,810 | 9 | 2% |
| Animal Protective League of Springfield and Sangamon County | $91,100 | 9 | 1% |
| Wesley Evening Food Pantry | $77,508 | 9 | n/a |
| Champaign County Health Care Consumers | $44,926 | 7 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Illinois Inc | $31,555 | 4 | 10% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $20,491 | 2 | 0% |
| Forever Home Feline Ranch - NFP | $17,607 | 3 | 7% |
| Friends of Sangamon County Animal Control | $16,118 | 3 | 9% |
| Feeding Our Kids | $11,975 | 2 | 2% |
| Prairie Air Inc Dba Weft Radio | $6,209 | 1 | 8% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Community Shares of Illinois supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Community Shares of Illinois
- How much does Community Shares of Illinois give?
- Community Shares of Illinois reported 4 itemized grants totaling $49,876, out of $106,785 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Shares of Illinois fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (66%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Community Shares of Illinois's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Champaign County Humane Society ($248k), Animal Protective League of Springfield and Sangamon County ($91k), Wesley Evening Food Pantry ($78k).
- Does Community Shares of Illinois fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Shares of Illinois?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Community Shares of Illinois based?
- Community Shares of Illinois is based in IL.
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