· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| NORTHWEST EDUC COUNCIL FOR STUDENT SERVICES | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| MT VERNON AREA VOCATIONAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +69% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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,…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Illinois Manufacturers' Association Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Manufacturers' Association Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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