How much does Illinois Humanities Council Inc give?

Illinois Humanities Council Inc reported 30 itemized grants totaling $285,850, out of $639,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Illinois Humanities Council Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Crime & Legal (16%), Education (12%).

Who are Illinois Humanities Council Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Free Write Arts & Literacy Nfp ($47k), Restore Justice Foundation ($46k), Legacy Training and Development Corporation ($45k).

Does Illinois Humanities Council Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Illinois Humanities Council Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Field Foundation of Illinois, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.

Where is Illinois Humanities Council Inc based?

Illinois Humanities Council Inc is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

Illinois Humanities Council Inc

Fostering a culture in which the humanities are a vital part of the lives of individuals and communities.

$639k
Granted FY2023: 30
Itemized grants FY2023: 29
Organizations funded FY2023: 52%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2023: $286k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023: $8,000
Largest grant, FY2023: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 80; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023: 1
Total assets, FY2023: $5.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Illinois Humanities Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2023	29	$286k	52%
FY2022	50	$454k	70%
FY2021	80	$731k	81%
FY2020	45	$431k	87%
FY2019	13	$140k	92%
FY2018	17	$156k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCrime & Legal$361kEducation$262kPublic Safety & Disaster$113kHuman Services$111kCivil Rights$70kYouth Development$50kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Free Write Arts & Literacy Nfp	$46,600	3	3%
Restore Justice Foundation	$45,650	4	1%
Legacy Training and Development Corporation	$45,350	3	28%
Contextos Nfp	$40,000	5	1%
The Voices & Faces Project	$37,450	4	3%
Northeastern Illinois University Foundation	$37,200	3	1%
Hub-Arts and Cultural Center	$37,000	4	12%
Millikin University	$33,200	3	0%
Sylvia Woods Josephine Wyatt and Clarice Durham	$28,600	3	21%
Carbondale Community Arts Incorporated	$28,500	3	4%

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All grantees of Illinois Humanities Council Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Free Write Arts & Literacy Nfp	$46,600	3	3%
Restore Justice Foundation	$45,650	4	1%
Legacy Training and Development Corporation	$45,350	3	28%
Contextos Nfp	$40,000	5	1%
The Voices & Faces Project	$37,450	4	3%
Northeastern Illinois University Foundation	$37,200	3	1%
Hub-Arts and Cultural Center	$37,000	4	12%
Millikin University	$33,200	3	0%
Sylvia Woods Josephine Wyatt and Clarice Durham	$28,600	3	21%
Carbondale Community Arts Incorporated	$28,500	3	4%
Crossroads Fund Inc	$28,000	4	0%
Chicago Cultural Alliance	$27,500	3	4%
Knox College	$25,550	2	0%
Young Chicago Authors	$25,500	3	1%
Chicago Community Bond Fund	$24,000	2	2%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods	$24,000	2	1%
Fifth House Ensemble	$23,100	3	2%
Storycorps Inc	$23,000	2	0%
Adler University	$22,100	3	0%
Resilience Partners NFP	$21,500	3	0%
Collaboraction Theatre Co	$21,100	2	2%
Changing Worlds	$21,000	2	1%
The Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke	$20,000	2	10%
826chi Inc	$19,600	2	2%
Savanna Historical Society Nfp	$18,500	2	17%
St Leonard's Ministries	$18,000	1	0%
First Followers	$18,000	2	1%
Central American Martyrs Center	$18,000	1	11%
Sixty Inches From Center Nfp	$17,900	2	3%
Forefront	$17,700	1	0%
Chicago Public Art Group	$17,600	2	4%
March 13 Fund	$17,100	1	8%
Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum Inc	$17,000	2	4%
African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society of Il Inc	$16,500	2	n/a
Storycatchers	$16,100	3	1%
Chicago Votes	$16,000	2	2%
Full Spectrum Features NFP	$15,750	2	3%
Circles and Ciphers	$15,200	1	n/a
Better Boys Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Just Art	$15,000	1	n/a
Chicago Video Project	$15,000	2	9%
Bright Star Community Outreach Corp	$15,000	1	0%
Piven Theatre Workshop	$14,994	2	3%
About Face Theatre Collective Inc	$13,100	1	3%
Chicago Latino Theater Alliance	$12,600	1	2%
City Colleges of Chicago	$12,500	1	n/a
Depaul University	$12,200	2	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$12,000	3	n/a
Design Museum of Chicago	$12,000	1	2%
Kuumba Lynx	$11,000	1	1%
Libre Carbondale Food Autonomy	$10,100	1	26%
Friends of Ejp	$10,100	1	n/a
Chicago Children's Theatre	$10,100	1	1%
Experimental Sound Studio	$10,100	1	3%
Prison and Neighborhood Arts-Education Project	$10,000	1	1%
Here and Again Inc	$10,000	1	67%
Wqpt	$10,000	2	n/a
East Saint Louis Historical Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Fulton County Community Arts Council	$10,000	2	n/a
Belleville Public Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Clarendon Hills Public Librar	$10,000	1	n/a
Glenwood-Lynwood Public Libra	$10,000	1	n/a
True Star Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Gallery 510 Art & Framing An Illinois Art Gallery	$10,000	1	10%
Historic Marbold Farmstead Association	$10,000	1	7%
The National Public Housing Museum	$10,000	1	1%
Schuyler County Architecture Foundation	$10,000	2	13%
Victory Gardens Theater	$10,000	1	0%
Carlinville Winning Communities Nfp	$10,000	1	n/a
Mississippi Valley Library District	$10,000	1	n/a
Illinois Library Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Public Media Institute	$10,000	2	1%
Red Clay Dance Company Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Grundy County Historical Society	$10,000	1	11%
Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humnaities	$10,000	1	26%
Si Cabe Southern Illinois Culture and Art in Bilingual Education Nfp	$10,000	1	n/a
Flossmoor Public Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Illinois Rural Heritage Museum Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Benton Public Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Heterodyne Broadcasting Company	$10,000	2	18%
The Cairo Historical Preservation Project Inc	$10,000	2	n/a
Champaign County Forest Preserve Dist	$10,000	1	n/a
Historic Ellisville Restoration Organization	$10,000	2	n/a
Allied Media Projects Inc	$10,000	1	0%
8th Day Center for Justice	$10,000	1	n/a
Evans Library Foundation	$10,000	1	22%
Calumet City Public Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Crossroads Cultural Connections	$10,000	1	33%
Richton Park Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Reading in Motion	$10,000	1	1%
Springfield Illinois African American History Foundatio	$10,000	1	11%
The Well Experience Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Men of Power-Women of Strength Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Free Spirit Media Nfp	$10,000	1	1%
The Realitea Project Inc	$10,000	2	16%
Bourbonnais Public Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Moultrie County Historical & Genealogical Society	$10,000	1	2%
Gilloury Institute	$9,500	1	1%
Black Alphabet Nfp	$9,100	1	18%
Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church	$9,000	1	n/a
Fresh Films	$9,000	1	1%
Crossing Borders Music Collective	$9,000	1	8%
Western Illinois Museum	$9,000	2	4%
Honey Pot Performance	$9,000	2	2%
Haitian American Museum of Chicago	$8,700	1	n/a
The Experimental Station	$8,500	1	0%
Aurora Fire Station Preservation Corp Aurora Regional Fire Museum	$8,500	1	5%
Galena Center for the Arts Inc	$8,500	1	5%
Atlanta Public Library Disctr	$8,500	1	n/a
Chicago Parks Foundation	$8,250	1	0%
Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois	$8,250	1	0%
Springfield Art Association of Edwards Place	$8,200	1	0%
DeKalb County History Center	$8,100	1	4%
Urban Theater Chicago Nfp	$8,100	1	3%
Readwrite Library	$8,000	1	n/a
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center	$8,000	2	1%
Darren B Easterling Center for Restorative Practices	$8,000	1	n/a
North Park University	$8,000	1	0%
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation	$8,000	2	1%
Chicago Freedom School	$8,000	1	1%
Beyond the Walls Nfp	$8,000	2	n/a
Calumet Collarborative	$8,000	1	3%
Eta Creative Arts Foundation	$7,500	1	1%
Puerto Rican Arts Alliance	$7,500	1	1%
Kartemquin Educational Films	$7,500	1	0%
Open Center for the Arts	$7,500	1	6%
American Blues Theater Nfp	$7,500	1	1%
MindsEye Radio	$7,500	1	1%
Black Lunch Table Nfp	$7,500	1	n/a
Reading Between the Lines Nfp	$7,500	1	n/a
Playmakers Laboratory Theatre	$7,500	1	2%
South Side Community Art Center	$7,500	1	1%
IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art	$7,500	1	1%
Literature for All of US	$7,500	1	n/a
Serendipity Theatre Company D/B/A 2nd Story	$7,500	1	2%
Third Coast International Audio Festival	$7,500	1	2%
Sandwich Public Library District	$7,500	1	n/a
The Rebuild Foundation Nfp	$7,500	1	1%
Midway Village & Museum Center	$7,500	1	1%
Korean Cultural Center of Chicago	$7,500	1	0%
Preservation of Egyptian Theatre Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Chinatown Museum Foundation Chinese American Museum of Chicago	$7,500	1	2%
Public Narrative	$7,500	1	3%
Anne West Lindsey District Li	$7,500	1	n/a
Hoogland Center for the Arts Inc	$7,500	1	1%
American Indian Center	$7,500	1	n/a
Forest Preserve Friends Foundation	$7,500	1	2%
Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Macomb Public Library Distric	$7,500	1	n/a
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center	$7,500	1	3%
Strategy for Access Foundation Nfp	$7,100	1	6%
Jacoby Arts Center	$7,000	1	3%
Lawrence County Illinois Historical Society	$6,500	1	n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc	$6,250	1	0%
Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago	$6,250	1	0%
New Age Services Corporation	$6,250	1	0%
Invisible Institute	$6,200	1	0%
The Guild Complex	$6,100	2	10%
6018north Nfp	$6,100	1	4%
Northwestern University	$6,000	1	0%
Nothing Without a Company	$6,000	1	n/a
Effingham Public Library	$6,000	1	n/a
Colure Meridian Co	$6,000	1	n/a
Galesburg Community Arts Center Inc	$6,000	1	3%
A Gift of Love Charity Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Women Initiating New Directions	$6,000	1	n/a
Become Inc	$6,000	1	2%
Benedictine University	$6,000	1	0%
University if Illinois Urbana-Champaign Black Alumni Network NFP	$6,000	1	6%
Christian County Historical Society	$5,750	1	n/a
Cuentos Foundation	$5,666	1	n/a
New Philadelphia Association Inc	$5,600	1	3%
Chicago Collections Consortium Inc Nfp	$5,600	1	3%
Winnebago Community Historical Society	$5,500	1	n/a
Parole Illinois	$5,250	1	9%
Lavon Pettis	$5,100	1	n/a
Organic Oneness	$5,100	1	1%
Southern Illinois Community Foundation	$5,100	1	0%
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

Illinois Humanities Council Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 128.

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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.

Field Foundation of IllinoisIL106.6× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Crossroads Fund Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Alphawood Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women

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.

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About Illinois Humanities Council Inc

How much does Illinois Humanities Council Inc give?: Illinois Humanities Council Inc reported 30 itemized grants totaling $285,850, out of $639,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Illinois Humanities Council Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Crime & Legal (16%), Education (12%).
Who are Illinois Humanities Council Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Free Write Arts & Literacy Nfp ($47k), Restore Justice Foundation ($46k), Legacy Training and Development Corporation ($45k).
Does Illinois Humanities Council Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Illinois Humanities Council Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Field Foundation of Illinois, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
Where is Illinois Humanities Council Inc based?: Illinois Humanities Council Inc is based in IL.