Illinois · Community foundation
Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc
Facilitate charitable giving for individuals and businesses, help organizations with endowment funds, serve as fiscal agent for charitable community projects and act as a catalyst for innovative charitable solutions to meet area needs.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $2.0M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $2.5M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $944k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $899k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $1.7M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $916k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $1.1M | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois State University Foundation | $1,024,679 | 9 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Bloomington | $472,452 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Christian Academy of McLean Co Inc | $413,581 | 6 | 8% |
| Eastview Christian Church | $373,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $257,168 | 9 | 0% |
| Advocate Charitable Foundation | $203,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The Baby Fold | $186,639 | 9 | 0% |
| Moses Montefiore Congregation | $185,488 | 9 | n/a |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $171,400 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 187 grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Growmark Foundation · Parker Kemp Foundation · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Paul a Funk Foundation · United Way of McLean County · Russell and Betty Shirk Foundation · The Owen Foundation · Reardon Family Foundation · The Woods Foundation · Peoria Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Macon County
How this is measured
Compare Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc give?
- Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc reported 66 itemized grants totaling $2,080,222, out of $2,856,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Environment (13%), International (12%).
- Who are Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Illinois State University Foundation ($1.0M), Samaritan's Purse ($1.0M), City of Bloomington ($472k).
- Does Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Growmark Foundation, Parker Kemp Foundation, Snyder Family Foundation Nfp.
- Where is Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc based?
- Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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