· Private foundation
Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $604k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $488k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST THE KING | $127,000 |
| EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| REFUGE RANCH | $50,000 |
| SPARC | $50,000 |
| DREAM CENTER SPRINGFIELD INC | $50,000 |
| KIDZEUM | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $30,000 |
| FMB STRONG INC | $25,000 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS OF COLLIER | $25,000 |
| COLLIER COUNTY AGRICULTURE FAIR AND EXPOSITION INC | $25,000 |
| FOSTERING SUCCESS | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI) | $25,000 |
| WARRIOR HOMES OF COLLIER COUNTY | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 73%.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
94 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 16 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD3× · 2020–2022 · $609k · revenue +43%
- EIEastern Illinois University Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +53%
- SSPARC6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- ICILLINOIS COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -13%
- CTCHRIST THE KING SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $91k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $27k
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.
Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.
Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.
Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
To provide resources, advocacy and education for a diverse community of professionals and is dedicated to the highest standards of service in a changing real estate market.
The Organizations mission is to offer vaccines, dental cleanings, low-cost orthopedic surgery and flea/tick and heart worm preventative medications at discount prices to ensure all families have access to affordable disease prevention for…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.
How this is measured
121 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. 121 of the 196 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds Eastern Illinois University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPARC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEND-IN-DEED ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR & EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT THIRD DAY NFP ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds SOJOURN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS EN CRISTO MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
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: Green Family Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · M G Nelson Family Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · Aa Harvey Foundation · Horace Mann Educators Foundation · Memorial Health System · The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr · James Orlandini Foundation · Memorial Health System Group · H D Smith Foundation · The League Club Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc: 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners for Breast Cancer Careinc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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