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John P Cadle Foundation at a glance

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John P Cadle Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$492k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$657kEducation$630kArts & Culture$333kReligion$301kPublic Safety & Disaster$203kYouth Development$195kRecreation & Sports$140kHealth$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $315k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE$20,000
ALVIN CHURCH OF GOD$20,000
POTOMAC GRADE SCHOOL$15,000
SALVATION ARMY$15,000
ROSSVILLE CHURCH OF CHRIST$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$15,000
ROSSVILLE ALVIN CUSD 7$15,000
WOMENS CARE CLINIC$15,000
BISMARCK-HENNING CUSD 1$15,000
SCHLARMAN ACADEMY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
DANVILLE ART LEAGUE$10,000
PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS$10,000
ROSSVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
DANVILLE BIRTH PROJECT$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $12k → 19%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $6k → 19%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $6k → 19%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 19%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 19%CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 19%THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $10k → 17%SERVE TOGETHER VERMILION COUNTY: $5k → 17%THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $4k → 17%THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $2k → 17%THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $2k → 17%HELP MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 17%HELP MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 17%PROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILLION COUNTY: $5k → 17%PROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILLION COUNTY: $5k → 17%PROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILION COUNTY: $5k → 17%PROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILLION COUNTY: $5k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $25k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $20k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $20k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $20k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $15k → 17%PROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILLION COUNTY: $3k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $10k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $10k → 17%MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $10k → 17%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 96 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
47

Total granted

$3.3M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+10%

Still filing today

27%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +112%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +22%
  • University of Illinois Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $101k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • IF
    I FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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

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.

1
Vermilion County Rape Crisis Center

Counsel and support victims of rape and sexual assault

Health
2
Danville Neighborhood Development Corporation

Reimagine danville's neighborhoods as thriving, nuturing, safe places where residents are empowered to invest their time, energy, and resources to make a positive difference.

Community Improvement
3
Danville Regional Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Darke County Historical Society

Operation of museum

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5
Downtown Danville Inc

Promote the Downtown area of Danville IL

Community Improvement
6
Danville Area Community Center

Dacc is a non-profit, community-owned facility. the center provides a wholesome, healthy environment and pledges that no person will be denied membership or access to programs. the dacc provides for members of all ages, a wide variety of…

Recreation & Sports
7
Dupage County Area Project Inc

Uniting families within communities to resources, services and education that will provide a positive impact to their daily lives and further promote a healthy

Crime & Legal
8
Vermilion Council On Aging Inc

To deliver services to the elderly of vermillion parish. we are the designated agency (in affiliation with regional & state agencies) for meal services,senior center, homemaker, transportation and similar services to the aging.

Human Services
9
Dysartsville Fire Department

To provide fire protection to the dysartsville community of mcdowell county north carolina

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Vernon County Historical Society

To preserve and promote vernon county history.

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11
Evans City Public Library Association

Public library

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12
Danevang Volunteer Fire Department

To provide for the safety and health of our communities and our visitors through professional emergency response, fire prevention and public education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Danville Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Danville Birth Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 171 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $193,707 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYROSSVILLE ALVIN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $118,100 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $110,000 · Other+150 more: $2,671,661 · Other+150 moreMUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $130,000 · Human ServicesCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $35,523 · Human ServicesHELP MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILION COUNTY INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $17,500 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAVE THE LORRAINE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureVERMILION HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureDANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureROSSVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,000 · Arts & CultureVermilion County War Museum: $27,000 · Arts & CultureVermilion County Museum Society: $8,000 · Arts & CultureUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $100,500 · EducationDANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $43,500 · EducationFair Hope Ministry: $37,650 · Youth DevelopmentWORKSOURCE ENTERPRISES: $35,000 · EmploymentGATEWAY FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $24,000 · HealthDanville Birth Project: $10,000 · Health
Other$3,093,468Human Services$236,023Arts & Culture$197,000Education$144,000Youth Development$37,650Employment$35,000Health$34,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE: $130,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $110,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $100,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE: $86,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSAVE THE LORRAINE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetTHE DANVILLE ART LEAGUE: $49,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetVERMILION HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetDANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $43,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHOOPESTON MULTI AGENCY SERVICE: $41,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetFair Hope Ministry: $37,650 over 8y, 15% of budgetCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $35,523 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORKSOURCE ENTERPRISES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $35,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetROSSVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetVermilion County War Museum: $27,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetHELP MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGATEWAY FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $24,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILION COUNTY INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEER COURT INC: $17,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTHE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $17,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetVERMILION COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $16,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUR FAMILY RESOURCE CONNECTIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDANVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $8,570 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANVILLE FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSERVE TOGETHER VERMILLION COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetDANVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWinterview Youth League: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERMILION COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $750 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE LORRAINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DANVILLE ART LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds VERMILION HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOOPESTON MULTI AGENCY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds Fair Hope Ministry ↗
  • Who funds CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL ↗
  • Who funds WORKSOURCE ENTERPRISES ↗
  • Who funds DANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗

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.

Iroquois Federal Foun…Julius W Hegeler II F…Vermilion Healthcare …Al Webster FoundationCommunity Foundation …Eastern Illinois Food…United Way of Champai…United Way of Danvill…Balloons Over Vermili…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…
Iroquois Federal Foundation IncIL59.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Julius W Hegeler II Foundation · Vermilion Healthcare Foundation · Al Webster Foundation · Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · United Way of Champaign County · United Way of Danville Area Inc · Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 John P Cadle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P Cadle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 171 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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