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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.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$373kFood & Nutrition$89kHousing & Shelter$52kHealth$45kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $49,876, the rows itemized in this filing. The $106,785 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,909 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$7,187
Median grant
1
States reached
$259k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIE$29,607
WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY$7,187
ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE$6,984
FEEDING OUR KIDS$6,098
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 6%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $16k → 11%CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 14%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIE: $30k → 19%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ILLINOIS: $9k → 6%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $13k → 11%CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 14%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIE: $28k → 19%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ILLINOIS: $7k → 6%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $11k → 11%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $7k → 19%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ILLINOIS: $5k → 6%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $10k → 11%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $7k → 19%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $10k → 11%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $7k → 19%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $8k → 11%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $7k → 19%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $8k → 11%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $6k → 19%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $7k → 11%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $6k → 19%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $7k → 11%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE: $5k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $30k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $29k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $28k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $27k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $27k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $27k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $23k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $9k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $7k → 19%WESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $7k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Community Shares of Illinois’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 0%.

Community Shares of Illinoislessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$559k · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against +104% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$559k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+104%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $248k · revenue +77%
  • AP
    ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +207%
  • CC
    CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • PA
    PRAIRIE AIR INC DBA WEFT RADIOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +104%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Champaign County Humane Association

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.

Animals
2
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
3
Champaign County Animal Welfare League Inc

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.

Animals
4
Illinois Animal Welfare Networkers Association
Animals
5
Friends of Chicago Animal Care and Control

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.

Animals
6
Kankakee County Humane Society Inc

Care and shelter program for the adoption of animals

Animals
7
Chicagoland Exotic Animal Rescue

Rehabilitate and preserve abandoned and stray animals that are commonly found in the pet trade.

Animals
8
Chicago Rescue Authority

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…

Animals
9
Illinois Humane

Preventing cruelty to animals

Animals
10
Champaign County Citizens for Canines

Non profit dog park

Animals
11
Chicago Cat Rescue

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…

Animals
12
Macoupin County Adopt a Pet

Rescue, care, and adoption services for pets

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champaign County Humane Society; 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.
05the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $247,810 · AnimalsCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY: $91,100 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTYForever Home Feline Ranch - NFP: $17,607 · AnimalsWESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRY: $77,508 · OtherWESLEY EVENING FOOD PANTRYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ILLINOIS INC: $31,555 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF IL…FRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $16,118 · OtherFRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY…PRAIRIE AIR INC DBA WEFT RADIO: $6,209 · OtherCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $44,926 · HealthCHAMPAIGN…CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $20,491 · Housing & ShelterFEEDING OUR KIDS: $11,975 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$356,517Other$131,390Health$44,926Housing & Shelter$20,491Food & Nutrition$11,975

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $247,810 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY: $91,100 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS: $44,926 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ILLINOIS INC: $31,555 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $20,491 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetForever Home Feline Ranch - NFP: $17,607 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $16,118 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetFEEDING OUR KIDS: $11,975 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPRAIRIE AIR INC DBA WEFT RADIO: $6,209 over 1y, 7.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Shares of Illinois funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Shares of Illinois. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Community Shares of Illinois?

    Find your warmest path to Community Shares of Illinois through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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