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Illinois Press Foundation Inc

To promote and protect free expression through educational activities that foster the practice and respect of first amendment principles and values, to enhance the quality of services provided by newspapers to their communities, and to support reading and literacy efforts.

$40k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$8k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$7,538
Largest grant, FY2022
$7,538
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Illinois Press Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$8k100%
FY20191$8k0%
FY20182$20k0%
FY20174$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$41kPublic Benefit$20kCivil Rights$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastern Illinois Universit$28,5643n/a
Citizen Advocacy Center$20,00026%
Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation$5,00012%
The Dusable Black History Museum and Education Center$5,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

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About Illinois Press Foundation Inc

How much does Illinois Press Foundation Inc give?
Illinois Press Foundation Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $7,538, out of $40,022 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Illinois Press Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Public Benefit (30%), Civil Rights (8%).
Who are Illinois Press Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Eastern Illinois Universit ($29k), Citizen Advocacy Center ($20k), Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation ($5k).
Does Illinois Press Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Illinois Press Foundation Inc based?
Illinois Press Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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 5 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $54k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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