How much does Monticello College Foundation give?

Monticello College Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $574,952 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Monticello College Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Arts & Culture (10%), Science & Tech (3%).

Who are Monticello College Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington University ($2.4M), Illinois College ($263k), The Newberry Library ($251k).

Does Monticello College Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Monticello College Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Monticello College Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Council of Independent Colleges, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Ibm International Foundation.

Where is Monticello College Foundation based?

Monticello College Foundation is based in IL.

Monticello College Foundation

Monticello College Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Monticello College Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$575k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$74k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.9MArts & Culture$568kScience & Tech$172kRecreation & Sports$140kYouth Development$124kHealth$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $51k
$10k–50k19 grants · $394k
$50k–250k2 grants · $130k

$12,171

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LEWIS & CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$74,392
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$55,463
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$45,085
ILLINOIS COLLEGE	$35,323
NEWBERRY LIBRARY	$30,365
CENTER FOR AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY	$30,000
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY	$25,471
PEORIA PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM	$25,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE	$20,140
VINCENT GRAY ACADEMY	$20,000
BLACKBURN COLLEGE	$19,949
WYMAN CENTER	$19,942
CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY	$18,378
REGIONAL DANCE AMERICA	$17,400
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY	$15,298

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.9M · 32 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.9M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

-10%

Still filing today

75%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +76%
IC
ILLINOIS COLLEGE
9× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +28%
CF
CENTER FOR AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY
8× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +10%

Funded once

CI
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +14%
RU
Roosevelt University
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -10%
CC
COTTEY COLLEGE
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -12%

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.

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

Xavier University

Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…

Education

Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education

Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education

Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vincent Gray Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/31

Grantees still filing

18/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$4,202,748Other$1,325,185Arts & Culture$306,156Recreation & Sports$110,000

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

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.

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.

Council of Independent CollegesDC17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Council of Independent Colleges · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Lord Educational Fund · John R Lucash Scholarship Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Lilly Endowment Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment 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 Monticello College Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monticello College Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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