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Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation
Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 59 grants below total $4,744,506 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,302,942 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,558,436 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $464k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $862k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC | $261,354 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $117,462 |
| THE CROSS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHARITY GLOBAL INC | $100,000 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH | $100,000 |
| ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $99,074 |
| CITY OF NEWTON ILLINOIS | $90,608 |
| BUCKEYE FRIENDS SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $70,000 |
| EFFINGHAM WATER AUTHORITY | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| EFFINGHAM CUSD UNIT 40 | $34,000 |
| FOX RIVER TROLLEY MUSEUM | $31,130 |
| ILLINOIS RAILROAD MUSEUM | $31,130 |
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 (FY17–24, $726k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 18 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k 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
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2024 · $13M · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CROSS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +51% · 68% of their budget
- FRFOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $207k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2022 · $5.0M
- NANEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $490k · revenue -954%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAULone grant, 2021 · $154k · revenue +15%
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.
Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.
To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.
Operating an agricultural fair under the state of illinois bureau of county fairs.
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success, developing a competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increasing the awareness of…
To promote philanthropy in an impartial, unbiased, ethical way, with a commitment to inclusiveness, and to bring together people and resources to identify and address present and emerging community needs.
To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm families in Effingham County, IL
To make annual distributions for charitable purposes in edgar county, il.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
The Edwards County Farm Bureau was organized to support and preserve the best interests of its agricultural communities, to educate the public and to enhance framing profitability for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
95 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. 95 of the 166 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 HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buckeye Friends School ↗
- Who funds NEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EL SHADDAI HOMES ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CONFERENCE OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
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: Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · United Way of Coles County Inc · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc · Midland States Bank Foundation · The Sparks Foundation Trust Agreement C/O Ray a Sparks · Niebrugge Cares Foundation · Midland Area Agency on Aging · United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation · The Melvin Family 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 Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation 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.
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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