· Private foundation
Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PALESTINE CUSD 3 | $10,000 |
| OBLONG CHILDREN'S CHRISTIAN HOME | $2,500 |
| PALESTINE PRESERVATION PROJECT SOCI | $2,500 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY SADDLE CLUB | $2,500 |
| PALESTINE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +76% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2019–2025 · $33k
- PCPalestine CUSD#33× · 2021–2025 · $30k
- CCCrawford County Fair Association5× · 2019–2023 · $28k
Funded once
- CCCrawford County Sheriff Departmentone grant, 2017 · $10k
- COCity of Robinson Parks Departmentone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CCCRAWFORD COUNTY KIDS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -59%
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.
The mission of the Crawford County Farm Bureau is to provide social, educational and promotional activities, programs and services for its membership, that will further the local agricultural industry.
Local Community Food Pantry
County food bank to assist with food needs of limited income families
To serve poor and needy individuals and families in Crawford County; to foster c cooperation and coordination among churches and religious organizations serving
The Crawford County Fair Association intends to create a safe modern, convenient meeting place for all Crawford County citizens and visitor to the area. Our purpose is to provide building, shelters, seating, and open areas for recreational…
The organization is ran and managed by a group of volunteers and is mandated to manage the county fairgrounds year-round as well as organize fund and implement the annual county fair in Crawford County KS. It is funded from local…
Provide food to people in need within the Coal City School District.
Food Pantry
Humane care and treatment of animals
To conduct activities toward economic development for all of Crawford County, Illinois.
To provide emergency food for indigent families in the surrounding counties.
To supply food to low income families
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 35 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 Lawrence Crawford Association for Exceptional Citizens ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY KIDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Crawford County Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ROBINSON AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OBLONG CHILDREN'S CHRISTIAN HOME ↗
- Who funds Palestine Development Association ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY SADDLE CLUB NFP ↗
- Who funds EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY 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: Mary Heath Foundation · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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