· Public charity
Memorial Health System
To improve lives and build stronger communities through better health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $512,292 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $552,481 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,189 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC | $199,011 |
| KIDZEUM | $100,000 |
| SIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $58,871 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $50,000 |
| GREATER SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $24,500 |
| HELPING HANDS | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL IL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| CONTACT MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SPARC | $9,275 |
| MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $8,135 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $7,500 |
| MERCY COMMUNITIES INC | $5,000 |
| FAITH COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 20% of Memorial Health System’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, 100% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 83% — 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- MHMENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS3× · 2017–2019 · $299k · revenue +11%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION2× · 2018–2019 · $160k · revenue +56%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- HSHospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporationone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -1%
- ISIllinois State Dental Society Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +45%
- SUSpringfield Urban League Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +34%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporation ↗
- Who funds Illinois State Dental Society Foundation ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds SPARC ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds CONTACT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds Springfield Urban League Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES ↗
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: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · Green Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · Aa Harvey Foundation · Memorial Health System Group · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Memorial Health System 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.
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.