· Private foundation
First Mid Bancshares Inc First Mid Wealth Management
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC | $250,000 |
| SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $20,000 |
| CHARLESTON FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS AMISH HERITAGE CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST JOHNS CHURCH & SCHOOL | $8,333 |
| MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| NEOGA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| GLEN ED PANTRY | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CARING & SHARING | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- EIEastern Illinois University Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +53%
- SBSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +52%
- WIWoodstock Institute2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- TYTHE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- MSMAC SPORTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -30%
- STSUMPTER TOWNSHIP PARK FUNDone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Economic development.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
To coordinate non-retail business attraction, retention, and expansion efforts in macon county, illinois.
To improve the quality of life in the greater st louis metropolitan area by connecting individuals, families, and businesses to their philanthropic goals.
To make annual distributions for charitable purposes in edgar county, il.
Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.
A community development financial institution or community development finance institution - abbreviated in both cases to CDFI - is a financial institution that provides credit and financial services to underserved markets and populations,…
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Build Missouri Health and the most unlike its peers is Eagle Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 52% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Illinois University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan St Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDWARDSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAC SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE - ON THE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD MISSOURI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds TRAIL RECREATION EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DIASPORA CONNECTIONS UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds EAGLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Institute ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE GLEN-ED PANTRY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 First Mid Bancshares Inc First Mid Wealth Management 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.