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Midland States Bank Foundation at a glance

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Midland States Bank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$534k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.1MHuman Services$446kEducation$249kHealth$244kRecreation & Sports$202kHousing & Shelter$153kFood & Nutrition$99kYouth Development$96kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$581k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$15,000
ROCKFORD PROMISE$15,000
ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION - INDOOR EQUINE CENTER$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
EVANS PARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
SAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
ALMOST HOME INC$10,000
CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP$10,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS STATELINE AREA$10,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%THE SIMPLE ROOM: $6k → 12%C-U AT HOME: $10k → 19%SIMPLE ROOM: $6k → 12%SIMPLE ROOM: $5k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $20k → 12%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%THE RESTORE NETWORK: $3k → 12%WESLEY HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 21%CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $30k → 9%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $8k → 15%MORNING STAR MISSION: $3k → 7%CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $6k → 9%FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $13k → 15%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 7%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES: $3k → 9%CORNERSTONE SERVICES INC: $8k → 7%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $3k → 9%CARPENTER'S PLACE: $5k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 34% of Midland States Bank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 52%.

Midland States Bank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 29 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
97

Total granted

$1.5M
$962k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+17%

Still filing today

59%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MI
    MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP
    7× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +66%
  • CN
    CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +162%
  • WG
    WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +463%

Funded once

  • MI
    MIDLAND INSTITURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • MG
    METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +76%
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

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.

1
Central Illinois Services

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…

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2
Center for Family Services

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…

Human Services
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Community Workshop & Training Center Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
6
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
7
Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc

Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.

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8
Inner City Mission of Springfield

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.

Religion
9
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
10
West Central Illinois Case Coordination Unit

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.

Unclassified
11
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
12
Illinois Coalition for Community Services

To provide support and assistance to community driven programs and services that seek to improve the quality of life for youth, families and communities.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/82
Grantees still filing
56/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDLAND INSTITURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $150,000 · OtherMIDLAND INSTITURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIPMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC: $50,000 · OtherEIU FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY-EFFINGHAM SPORTSBACKERS: $50,000 · Other+105 more: $978,036 · Other+105 moreMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP: $800,000 · EducationMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURS…+7 more: $72,500 · Education+7 moreCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY: $127,300 · HealthWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC: $50,000 · Health+3 more: $6,500 · HealthCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesSPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SIMPLE ROOM: $17,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PEACE CENTER: $12,500 · Human ServicesWesley House Association: $10,000 · Human ServicesC-U AT HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $8,300 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE SERVICES INC: $7,700 · Human ServicesBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $7,500 · Human Services+7 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesDELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY: $15,000 · Community ImprovementWILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $7,500 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementKankakee Riverfront Society Inc: $7,500 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $7,500 · Community ImprovementCARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentBALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentSauk Valley Foodbank: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMISS CARLY'S INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BASKET: $2,500 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,378,036Education$872,500Health$183,800Human Services$178,000Community Improvement$96,000Environment$40,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP: $800,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY: $127,300 over 7y, 11% of budgetWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSwedishAmerican Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE SIMPLE ROOM: $17,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetJOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKFORD PROMISE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $11,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRIS Healthy Aging: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFortitude Community Outreach: $10,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWesley House Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlmost Home: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AUTISM EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS BELVIDERE LIONS CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetC-U AT HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIllinois Executive Mansion Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $8,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE SERVICES INC: $7,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKankakee Riverfront Society Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE DECISIONS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $7,500 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 MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN WILL COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PEACE CENTER ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Northern Illinois Foo…The David & Colleen A…Southeastern Illinois…Virginia C Koboldt Ch…Bergstrom Inc Charita…John T Wolf Charitabl…The Kjellstrom Family…United Way of Rock Ri…St Louis Community Fo…Guy Reno Family Found…Rydell Family Foundat…
Community Foundation of Northern ILIL33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Midland States Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midland States Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 158 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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