How much did ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION grant in FY2024?

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION reported 22 grants totaling $4,010,242 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION based?

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION is based in IL.

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION

To provide assistance to low-income people.

$4.0M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$518k

Largest

01What you fund

0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$10MHuman Services$3.0MHousing & Shelter$1.8MEducation$635kOther$4.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

energy membermember qualifyqualify underunder specialspecial hardshiphardship caseshousing counseling

2019

energy membermember qualifyqualify underunder specialspecial hardshiphardship casesincome living

2020

makeenableaccessemergencyfoodbasicsupplies

2021

income livingliving ruralenergy membermember qualifyqualify underunder specialspecial hardship

2022

tanf eligibleeligible aidaid seekingseeking retainingretaining employmentincome qualifiedenergy savings

2023

tanf eligibleeligible aidaid seekingseeking retainingretaining employmentincome qualifiedenergy savings

2024

tanf eligibleeligible aidaid seekingseeking retainingretaining employmentincome qualifiedenergy savings

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k11 grants · $275k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
$250k+1 grant · $518k

$49,317

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

CEDA OF COOK COUNTY INC$517,952
TWO RIVERS REGIONAL COUNCIL$231,196
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION$208,283
TRI COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL$190,726
EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY$159,559
CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION$104,434
WESTERN EGYPTIAN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL$84,401
PROJECT NOW$71,797
ST CLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$70,638
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION$64,882
KENDALL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$49,317
ILLINOIS VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$46,494
CITY OF ROCKFORD HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT$41,115
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY$31,830
SHAWNEE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$24,948

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 29 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$20M

$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+79%

Still filing today

76%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

CO
CEDA OF COOK COUNTY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +95%
ER
EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +73%
TO
TRI-COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES COUCIL
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +31%

Funded once

SC
SAGAMON COUNTY COMMUNITY RESOURCES
one grant, 2023 · $72k
IH
ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
one grant, 2020 · $20k
CC
CROSSWALK COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +79%

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

04Your field

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.

West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services

Community Action Commission of

Community assistance

Human Services

Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services

Community Action Commission of

Administers grants and programs to improve the lives of those who fall below the poverty level.

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Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services

Community Economic Development Associate

To help people and communities in rural areas control their own economic destinies.

Community Improvement

Community Action Agency

Provide social services to low income families to provide them with a better quality of life.

Human Services

West Central Minnesota Communities

Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.

Community Improvement

Worcester Community Action Council Inc

Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services

Community Action Partnership of

Providing low income individuals home energy assistance and providing emergency assisstance as needed

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Community Action Agency Inc

To aid low income families with early education, energy assistance, nutrition help and other services.

Human Services

Indiana Community Action

The indiana community action association (in-caa) works to strengthen the capacity of indiana's community action agencies to address community needs and poverty.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Partnership of and the most unlike its peers is Bcmw Community Services 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 60 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/33

the rest of the field

12%

6,701/57,087

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.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

21/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$10,464,371Other$4,073,399Human Services$2,975,909Housing & Shelter$1,751,624Education$635,268

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.

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.

Housing Action IllinoisIL15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Housing Action Illinois · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Midland States Bank Foundation · Meals on Wheels America · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 organisation ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TWO RIVERS REGIONAL COUNCIL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371282554 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TWO RIVERS REGIONAL COUNCIL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Illinois Association of Community Action?

Find your warmest path to Illinois Association of Community Action through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Illinois Association of Community Action?

More from the funding graph

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Illinois Association of Community Action?

More from the funding graph