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Menard County United Fund Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Menard County United Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$40kHuman Services$38kFood & Nutrition$34kMembership Benefit$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kYouth Development$14kPublic Benefit$4kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$551k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Menard County Senior Transport$5,000
Menard County Food Pantry$4,000
Greenview Civic Improvement Assoc$4,000
Town & Country Womens Club$3,000
Athens American Legion Post$3,000
Farmers Bakers Artists$2,000
Athens Food Pantry$2,000
Tallula Senior Citizens$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Boy Scouts Troop 52$1,400
Girl Scouts$1,400
Menard County Emergency Fund$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Menard County Animal Protection$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Menard County American Legion: $6k → 9%Central Illinois Services Partnership: $20k → 14%Athens Food Pantry: $4k → 9%Menard County American Legion: $3k → 9%Athens American Legion Post: $3k → 9%Menard County American Legion: $3k → 9%Athens Food Pantry: $3k → 9%Menard County American Legion: $3k → 9%Athens Food Pantry: $2k → 9%Boy Scouts Troop 52: $2k → 9%Athens Food Pantry: $2k → 9%Menard County Senior Transport: $5k → 9%Menard County Senior Transport: $5k → 9%Menard County Senior Transport: $5k → 9%Town & Country Womens Club: $5k → 9%Community Action Partnership: $5k → 9%Greenview Food Pantry: $4k → 9%Menard County Emergency Fund: $4k → 9%Menard County Food Pantry: $4k → 9%Menard County Senior Transport: $4k → 9%Menard County Senior Transport: $4k → 9%Menard County Senior Transport: $4k → 9%Give N Take Shop: $3k → 9%Menard County Emergency Fund: $3k → 9%Menard County Paramedics: $3k → 9%Town & Country Womens Club: $3k → 9%Menard County Emergency Fund: $3k → 9%Greenview Food Pantry: $3k → 9%Community Action Partnership: $3k → 9%Menard County Food Pantry: $3k → 9%Community Action Partnership: $3k → 9%Menard County Food Pantry: $2k → 9%Menard County Food Pantry: $2k → 9%Give N Take Shop: $2k → 9%Town & Country Womens Club: $2k → 9%Paramedics Association: $2k → 9%Farmers Bakers Artists: $2k → 9%Greenview Civic Improvement Assoc: $4k → 9%Greenview Am-Vets: $4k → 9%Greenview Am-Vets: $3k → 9%Tallula BLS: $19k → 9%Tallula BLS: $4k → 9%Tallula BLS: $4k → 9%Tallula BLS: $3k → 9%Tallula Senior Citizens: $3k → 9%Tallula Senior Citizens: $3k → 9%Tallula Senior Citizens: $3k → 9%Tallula BLS: $3k → 9%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$188k · 16 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$188k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-64%
+12%

Still filing today

6%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2020–2025 · $33k
  • MC
    Menard County Senior Transport
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k
  • MC
    Menard County American Legion
    4× · 2020–2024 · $14k

Funded once

  • CI
    Central Illinois Services Partnership
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • PA
    Paramedics Association
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $33,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMenard County Senior Transport: $26,500 · OtherMenard County Senior TransportCentral Illinois Services Partnership: $19,600 · OtherCentral Illinois Services PartnershipMenard County American Legion: $14,218 · OtherMenard County American LegionMenard County Emergency Fund: $14,200 · OtherMenard County Emergency FundAthens Food Pantry: $13,700 · OtherAthens Food PantryMenard County Food Pantry: $13,700 · OtherMenard County Food PantryTALLULA SENIOR CITIZENS: $11,000 · OtherCommunity Action Partnership: $10,718 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,790 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,218 · OtherBoy Scouts Troop 52: $7,200 · Other+13 more: $30,898 · Other+13 moreTOWN AND COUNTRY WOMENS CLUB: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFarmers Bakers & Artists: $2,000 · Education
Other$212,042Community Improvement$10,000Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOWN AND COUNTRY WOMENS CLUB: $10,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFarmers Bakers & Artists: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCENTRAL ILLINOIS SERVICE ACCESS INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TOWN AND COUNTRY WOMENS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Farmers Bakers & Artists ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ILLINOIS SERVICE ACCESS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Menard County United Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Menard County United Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Menard County United Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Menard County United Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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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