· Public charity
Illinois Manufacturers' Association Education Foundation
To foster and promote vocational, educational, charitable and scientific interests including activities which foster accountability, freedom of choice, incentives for students and teachers, and excellence in pre-employment education, and, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of ILLINOIS MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION EDUCATION 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.
The 13 grants below total $161,402 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $181,466 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,064 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GACC MIDWEST | $44,250 |
| NORTHERN IL UNIVERSITY | $22,152 |
| SOUTHWESTERN IL COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MCHENRY COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MT VERNON AREA VOCATIONAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| NORTHWEST EDUC COUNCIL FOR STUDENT SERVICES | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your 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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +69% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- GAGERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE MIDWEST INC3× · 2017–2020 · $402k · revenue +61%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $229k · revenue +276%
- GCGreater Chicago Advanced Manufacturing Pship NFP2× · 2018–2019 · $190k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- TCTRITON COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $23k
- KCKISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +13%
- ECELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
To enable student success.
To assist in providing educational opportunitites.
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…
The peoria area chamber of commerce is a membership organization of businesses, delivering value to its members by 1) cultivating a thriving business community, 2) presenting the united voice of local business to government, 3) offering…
The Elgin Area Chamber connects communities through engagement, advocacy, collaboration, and leadership.
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.
Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.
To encourage and provide private support for Eastern Illinois University and its educational mission through scholarships and grants
Together with our community we build financial support for student learning and success.
The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) exists to serve a select group of private colleges and universities of similar size and heritage, which share a deep commitment to superior undergraduate education and a common…
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Illinois College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northern Illinois University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Chicago Advanced Manufacturing Pship NFP ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDC INC GREATER PEORIA ECONOMIC DEV COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OAI Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLNEY CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Manufacturers' Association Education 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.
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.