· Private foundation
Midland States Bank Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $150,000 |
| SILVER CROSS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEW CITY FELLOWSHIP DBA RESTORE ST LOUIS | $20,000 |
| DELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION - INDOOR EQUINE CENTER | $15,000 |
| ROCKFORD PROMISE | $15,000 |
| RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ROCKFORD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| BLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $11,900 |
| NATIONAL HOOKUP OF BLACK WOMEN INC | $10,000 |
| ALMOST HOME INC | $10,000 |
| EVANS PARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP | $10,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS STATELINE AREA | $10,000 |
| SAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 34% of Midland States Bank 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, 87% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 52% — 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 +55% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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
- MIMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP7× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +66%
- CNCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY7× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +162%
- WGWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC5× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +463%
Funded once
- MIMIDLAND INSTITURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIPone grant, 2023 · $150k
- MGMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CSCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +76%
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.
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
To promptly and efficiently promote and provide a wide array of programs to meet the needs of the elderly, their families and those who care for them in a confidential and professional manner.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
To provide support and assistance to community driven programs and services that seek to improve the quality of life for youth, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hands of Hope Illinois. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 158 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 MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET ↗
- Who funds SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds THE SIMPLE ROOM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PROMISE ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PEACE CENTER ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Northern Illinois Food Bank · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Rydell Family 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 Midland States Bank 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.
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.