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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| DREAM CENTER SPRINGFIELD INC | $50,000 |
| SPARC | $50,000 |
| KIDZEUM | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| COLLIER COUNTY AGRICULTURE FAIR AND EXPOSITION INC | $25,000 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS OF COLLIER | $25,000 |
| VALERIE'S HOUSE | $25,000 |
| FOSTERING SUCCESS | $25,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Distress Bandanna Teen Driver Safety Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 197 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 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 VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIEND-IN-DEED ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR & EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT THIRD DAY NFP ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Levi Ray & Shoup 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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