· Private foundation
Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of HENRY M STALEY DECLARATION OF CHARIT TR D/B/A STALEY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF DECATUR | $175,000 |
| STALEY MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSN | $30,000 |
| MILIKIN UNIVERSITY | $22,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| SIU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CUMBERLAND COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LEADERS FUND | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DECATUR & MACON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MERCATUS CENTER | $7,000 |
| PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN INN | $6,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +53%
- IPILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NCNEHEMIAH CHILDCARE SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $5k
- ISILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +14%
- BMBISHOP MCNAMARA CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See Disclosure Above.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Staley Museum. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 72 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 MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE STALEY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HISTORIC PATTERSON COTTAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds KEMMERER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SPARC ↗
- Who funds MACON COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
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 Community Foundation of Macon County · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · Andreas Foundation · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · James Millikin Trust A · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · A E Staley Jr Foundation CO FIRST MID WEALTH MANAGEMENT COMPANY · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation 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.
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
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.