· Private foundation
Oris B Hastings Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Southern Illinois Community Foundation | $30,000 |
| Cairo Auxillary Fire Department | $20,295 |
| American Legion Post #236 | $19,995 |
| St Henry Catholic School | $19,861 |
| Harold S Jones Fine Arts Center | $19,500 |
| Horse Shoe Lake Volunteer Fire Dept | $13,266 |
| Foster Adopt Connect - Children's Program | $10,000 |
| Southern Illinois Music Festival - | $5,000 |
| Smiles Senior Center - Water & Heater Installation | $4,871 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,005 |
| Cairo School District No 1 - | $1,553 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Cairo Jr high Beta Club | $850 |
| Cairo JuniorSenior High School | $678 |
| Cairo schools District No 1 | $478 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHST HENRY SCHOOL4× · 2019–2022 · $67k
- COCITY OF CAIRO FIRE DEPARTMENT2× · 2021–2022 · $42k
- HSHarold S Jones Fine Arts Center2× · 2023–2024 · $41k
Funded once
- OHOlmsted Historical Societyone grant, 2023 · $59k · 79% of their budget
- PAPurchase Area Development Dist Inc Food Bankone grant, 2023 · $50k
- KOKnights of Columbus #1111one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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.
Preserve and maintain historic buildings and grounds in cairo, illinois
Historic preservation
Preserve and Collect History of Clark County, Illinois
To provide fire protection
To honor fire fighters who have fallen.
Maintain cemetery
Fire protection
Maintain and operate museum to collect and preserve Clinton County history.
Restore historic buildings & maintain sane as well as maintain historic records
Preservation, conservation and restoration of a historical chicago landmark property.
Promote history of the city of LeRoy
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oris B Hastings Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oris B Hastings Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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