· Private foundation
Julius W Hegeler II Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $2,400,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $304,200 |
| OSF HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $255,000 |
| DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $87,574 |
| DANVILLE FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH | $52,800 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANVILLE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| AMBUCS | $30,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| VERMILION COUNTY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| DANVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ART LEAGUE OF DANVILLE | $18,000 |
| DANVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VERMILION FESTIVAL CHORUS | $5,000 |
| THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY | $4,901 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- DADANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +56% · 34% of their budget
- WEWORKSOURCE ENTERPRISES2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +3%
- DPDANVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- DPDANVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $153k
- LLLAURA LEE FELLOWSHIP HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $140k
- TLTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $125k
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.
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.
Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…
Promote and preserve agriculture activities for members
To ensure the long term viability of danville's river district as a center of business and civic life, and a source of community pride. rda carries out this mission through activities to attract and retain businesses, residents and…
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…
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
Our mission is to discover, preserve and share the history of the town of danville, vermont.
Established for educational purposes including the public promotion of dental health and providing scholarships to students pursuing as dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and laboratory technicians.
Jdcf works to preserve and steward land and water for the lasting well-being of all people and wildlife.
Dansville Public Library purchases and maintains a collection of books and other materials for loan to the public to meet the educational, informational, and recreational needs of its users, along with providing early literacy programs,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Danville Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 73 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 VERMILION HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSPOINT ↗
- Who funds WORKSOURCE ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds Winterview Youth League ↗
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS OF VERMILION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF VERMILION COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HEGELER CARUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vermilion County War Museum ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED CHRISTIAN DAYCARE ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · John P Cadle Foundation · Vermilion Healthcare Foundation · Balloons Over Vermilion Nfp · Al Webster Foundation · Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Julius W Hegeler II 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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