· Public charity
Prairieland United Way Inc
To provide financial assistance to charitable organizations for the benefit of surrounding communities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $297,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $329,996 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,396 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $62,000 |
| Prairie Council on Aging | $52,000 |
| Midwest Youth Services | $34,500 |
| Crisis Center Foundation | $24,500 |
| New Directors Shelter | $23,000 |
| Cass County Food Pantry | $23,000 |
| Presbyterian Day Care | $20,000 |
| YMCA | $17,150 |
| Prairie CASA | $17,000 |
| North Greene Food Pantry | $12,000 |
| American Red Cross | $7,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,450 |
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 (FY17–25, $717k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PCPRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING9× · 2017–2025 · $434k · revenue +92%
- MYMIDWEST YOUTH SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $269k · revenue +298%
- CCCRISIS CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +239%
Funded once
- HHHOBBY HORSE HOUSE OF JACKSONVILLEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +675%
- TWTHE WELLS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $8k
- TNTHE NURSERY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -100%
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 provide support to low income families in the form of food and clothing.
Provide Emergency services, services include food, clothing, utility payment assistance, rental assistance, school supplies, infant care and medical assistance for 10442 individuals
To meet the needs of the community by providing quality child care that encourages individual development in a safe, nuturing environment
To provide mental health and substance abuse counseling to chiildren, youth, families, and adults; to provide a 24 hr/7 days a week youth shelter and to work closely with other agencies to keep families together
To promote the healthy development of children and families through quality behavioral and mental health services, community partnerships and advocacy.
The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.
Provide a home and the needs of children with no other place to go
To promote the christian way of living among its members and constituents, to promote the physical, mental & spiritual welfare of persons and to emphasize reverence for god, responsibility for the common good, respect for personality and…
Family and children's service of ithaca supports, promotes and strengthens the well-being of individuals and families by providing high-quality, accessible mental health care and related social services, with a particular sensitivity…
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
To provide a comprehensive therapeutic early childhood and strength-based family education programs, committed to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, so that children may grow and develop to their full potential.
Organization provides support services and education to families in Fayette County. The primary mission of PSAS (the "Agency") is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all agency participants. The staff members…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educational Day Care Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nursery School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 PRAIRIE COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Central Illinois Health Corporation ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Church Day Care Center ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds BOB FREESEN YMCA ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS OF JACKSONVILLE IL INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF FAITH SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds North Greene Area Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HOBBY HORSE HOUSE OF JACKSONVILLE ↗
- Who funds SCOUTS OF AMERICA 144 ABRAHAM LINCOLN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
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: Bound To Stay Bound Books Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Prairieland United Way Inc 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.