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Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies
The ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES (association) is a not-for-profit organization which serves as a network for illinois not-for-profit corporations and units of government which strive to raise the health, education, and economic standards of illinois' citizens living at the lower socio-economic margins.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $1,988,316 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,010,242 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,021,926 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $518k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACOMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +50%
- EREMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +61%
- TOTRI-COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SCSANGAMON COUNTY DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $72k
- IHIllinois Housing Development Authorityone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CCCROSSWALK COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +77%
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.
The mission of community action for improvement, inc. is to build sustainable communities with partners by providing services and resources utilizing the whole family approach with low-income households to help reduce the burdens of…
To provide a wide range of services in an effort to help improve the quality of life for people with an economic disadvantage.
To be the service delivery agent to the poor. the agency will identify needs and prioritize them and promote, secure, and use all available resources to alleviate poverty. our intent is to enable low-income individuals and families to…
Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.
The agency provides health education, utilities assistance, and other social servics to low income families and senior citizens of bell & whitley counties, kentucky.
The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
The organization is dedicated to alleviating the conditions and causes of poverty by building partnerships and strengthening people through quality services. community action of southeast iowa administers programs funded or supported by…
Our mission is to reduce the causes and adverse consequences of poverty and to empower low-income individuals, families and communities to achieve self-sufficiency through advocacy, resource utilization and service delivery.
To empower and create opportunities for vulnerable individuals and families in our community to become socially and economically self sufficient through integrated social, educational, health, prevention, and other basic services.
To aid low income families with early education, energy assistance, nutrition help and other services.
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
Multi-purpose caa eliminates barriers to economic self-sufficiency for low income families and senior citizens through community supports and partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Central Illinois Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Two Rivers Council Foundation. 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 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 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 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE TWO RIVERS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS ↗
- Who funds ST CLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN EGYPTIAN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BCMW COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVERS HEAD START AGENCY ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NOW INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH AREA DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONTACTS INC ↗
- Who funds MID CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds KANKAKEE COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds CROSSWALK COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
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: 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 organization Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies 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.