· Private foundation
Paul a Funk Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF ACES 65 MUNFORD HALL | $35,000 |
| YMCA | $12,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| ISU FOUNDATION RAMBO HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BABY FOLD | $10,000 |
| MCCORMICK FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME AID | $5,000 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $5,000 |
| MCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA WD BOUCE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ILLINOIS 4-H FOUNDATION INC 125 MUMFORD HALL | $5,000 |
| DALE TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $4,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME MISSION | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
45 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BABY FOLD5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +29%
- MCMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +42%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BPBLOOMINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FCFUNK CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMALone grant, 2021 · $5k · 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.
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.
Provide quality health care to mclean county's medically underserved residents through the operation of a free medical clinic.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
An agency supportive to low and/or single income working parents. we encourage developmental growth in children aged 6 weeks to eleven years by providing them with the tools needed to further their social, emotional, physcial and…
Provides high quality, comprehensive, early childhood education and childcare in a safe and nurturing environment for Dekalb, IL area families. The experienced teachers and staff provide age-appropriate curriculum through play-based…
Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations
To enrich the quality of life within the diverse population of northwest rockford.
We are committed to providing quality child care to children ages two through seven. our focus is on children from low-income backgrounds. we are also committed to serving children who have been placed in foster care and those identified…
The children's center of cicero-berwyn, inc. is a community-based child care program composed of nine day care sites providing pre-school and school age day care and child development programs in the berwyn and cicero, illinois communities.
The operation of a children's museum.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois (RMHCCI) provides programs to support the well-being of children and provides a home away from home for families with children receiving medical care.
To enhance the positive development of children via innovative childcare, teaching methods and programming. while nurturing children's intellectual, psychosocial and physical development, creativity, acceptance of diversity, and…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 57 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.
- Who funds HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUGAR GROVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MID CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES EARLY LEARNING CENTER & PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY AND MORE INC ↗
- Who funds Carle Cancer Institute Normal LLC ↗
- Who funds HEYWORTH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · Parker Kemp Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Russell and Betty Shirk Foundation · Tornquist Family Foundation · United Way of McLean County · The Growmark Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul a Funk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul a Funk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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