· Public charity
Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program
To promote safety and accident prevention, education and training, economic development and diversity efforts, and conducting community education and public relations programs in the construction industry.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of SOUTHERN ILLINOIS CONSTRUCTION ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $310,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $355,921 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,921 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SW IL | $50,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $40,000 |
| BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP DISTRICT 201 | $25,000 |
| KASKASKIA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| COLLINSVILLE AREA FOUDATION | $25,000 |
| TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of your 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- LCLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS5× · 2021–2025 · $206k · revenue +34%
- TFTransportation for Illinois Coalition6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +2%
- CACOLLINSVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SASCOTT AIR FORCE BALL COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · $9k
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.
The illinois community college system foundation serves all 48 illinois community colleges in the state of illinois, providing student scholarships, programs, services, and general funds.
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.
To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.
Economic development within champaign county, il and surrounding communities
Alliance stl is the business attraction initiative of greater st. louis, inc. greater st. louis, inc. is a nonprofit investor-supported organization comprised of businesses, institutions and organizations of all sizes that reflect the full…
Sharing the good in southern illinois and advancing our region as a great place to live, work, and do business.
Economic development.
To provide support to realtors and those afffiliated with real estate sales. to facilitate membership in the national association of realtors, to provide a safe, secure way for members of the public to provide access to homes and…
Advancement and promote the transporation design and construction industry in illinois.
Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Illinois College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 ST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Transportation for Illinois Coalition ↗
- Who funds BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 201 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLINSVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program 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.
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