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Illinois Manufacturers' Association at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Illinois Manufacturers' Association

To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
139
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$449k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Employment$7.5MCommunity Improvement$12k
02FY2024 · 139 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 139 grants below total $5,110,231, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,409,345 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $299,114 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $263k
  • $10k–50k73 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $449k
$20,233
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENERAL MILLS INC$449,350
RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE LLC$173,632
TRIM-TEX INC$165,131
APPAREL REDEFINED$128,046
BRANDING IRON HOLDINGS HOLTEN MEAT INC$113,513
EXXONMOBIL REFINING & SUPPLY CO$110,997
SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO$107,086
CHICAGO PROTECTIVE APPAREL INC$106,633
THREE Z PRINTING CO$100,811
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY$100,261
DOT FOODS INC$99,538
GIESECKE & DEVRIENT (GD)$94,491
LMT ONSRUD LP$90,746
IYA FOODS LLC$89,922
CATERPILLAR INC - EAST PEORIA$88,501
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE LLC: $174k → 21%GIESECKE & DEVRIENT (GD): $94k → 7%PROVEN PARTNERS GROUP: $55k → 8%THE MASCHHOFFS LLC: $45k → 8%CABOT CORP: $51k → 9%GENERAL MILLS INC: $449k → 9%SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO: $107k → 9%HARDIN INDUSTRIES LLC: $65k → 12%MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION: $47k → 12%DOT FOODS INC: $100k → 14%STRATAS FOODS: $44k → 15%PRYSMIAN: $44k → 15%BRANDING IRON HOLDINGS HOLTEN MEAT INC: $114k → 16%TOYOTA BOSHOKU ILLINOIS: $70k → 17%MARS WRIGLEY: $74k → 6%HOLLAND LP: $79k → 7%NEMERA: $66k → 8%SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO: $81k → 9%LMT ONSRUD LP: $91k → 8%SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO: $59k → 9%STEPAN CO: $46k → 14%ACE METAL CRAFTS COMPANY: $54k → 7%THREE Z PRINTING CO: $101k → 9%INGREDION INCORPORATED: $41k → 14%NESTLE BEVERAGE: $45k → 14%IYA FOODS LLC: $90k → 7%OTTO ENGINEERING INC: $60k → 8%APPAREL REDEFINED: $128k → 14%MAGNETIC INSPECTION LABORATORY INC: $50k → 14%REYES COCA COLA BOTTLING: $79k → 14%STEPAN CO: $72k → 14%STEPAN CO: $58k → 14%SUBURBAN INDUSTRIES INC: $41k → 7%UNITED SCRAP METAL INC: $68k → 14%BRAD FOOTE GEARING: $51k → 14%UNITED SCRAP METAL: $48k → 14%UNITED SCRAP METAL INC: $41k → 14%DUBAK ELECTRICAL GROUP LLC: $60k → 14%NATION PIZZA PRODUCTS: $76k → 14%NATION PIZZA PRODUCTS: $46k → 14%NATION PIZZA PRODUCTS: $44k → 14%GALLAGHER ASPHALT CORP: $71k → 14%CHICAGO PROTECTIVE APPAREL INC: $107k → 14%TRIM-TEX INC: $165k → 14%ED MINIAT LLC: $46k → 14%GREAT LAKES COCA-COLA BOTTLING RCCB NILES: $86k → 14%GREAT LAKES COCA-COLA BOTTLING: $75k → 14%ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 56 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 81 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
52

Total granted

$4.2M
$676k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TS
    THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $247k
  • SC
    STEPAN CO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $205k
  • CI
    CATERPILLAR INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $204k

Funded once

  • BF
    BRAD FOOTE GEARING
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • OS
    O'BRIEN STEEL SERVICE CO
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • GL
    GILSTER-MARY LEE CORPORATION (HQ)CHESTER MIX
    one grant, 2022 · $29k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2019 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 189 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GENERAL MILLS INC: $449,350 · OtherGENERAL MILLS INC+187 more: $7,077,440 · Other+187 morePEORIA PRODUCTION SHOP: $7,530 · Employment
Other$7,526,790Employment$7,530

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEORIA PRODUCTION SHOP: $7,530 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Chicagoland Chamber o…Chicago Cook Workforc…
Chicagoland Chamber of CommerceIL23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce · Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Illinois Manufacturers' Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 189 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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