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Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program at a glance

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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.

$356k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$883kCommunity Improvement$633k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $310,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $355,921 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,921 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE$125,000
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SW IL$50,000
GREATER ST LOUIS INC$40,000
KASKASKIA COLLEGE$25,000
COLLINSVILLE AREA FOUDATION$25,000
BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP DISTRICT 201$25,000
TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STL REG CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSO: $40k → 21%TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION: $20k → 11%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SW IL: $25k → 12%INTERSECT ILLINOIS: $15k → 14%KASKASKIA COLLEGE: $25k → 15%SAFB: $9k → 16%SIU CARBONDALE: $25k → 23%GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $40k → 21%TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION: $18k → 11%SIUE FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%INTERSECT ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE: $125k → 16%SIU CARBONDALE: $25k → 23%GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $40k → 21%TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION: $17k → 11%SIUE CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT: $25k → 12%BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP DISTRICT 201: $25k → 16%SIU CARBONDALE: $25k → 23%GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $40k → 21%TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION: $17k → 11%SIUE SCHOOL OF CONSTRUCTION: $18k → 12%BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP DISTRICT 201: $25k → 16%STL REG CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSO: $40k → 21%TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION: $17k → 11%SIUE CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT: $15k → 12%BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP DISTRICT 201: $25k → 16%GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $40k → 21%TRANSPORT FOR IL COALITION: $15k → 11%COLLINSVILLE AREA FOUDATION: $25k → 12%BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP DISTRICT 201: $25k → 16%COLLINSVILLE AREA FOUDATION: $25k → 12%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SW IL: $66k → 12%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SW IL: $50k → 12%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SW IL: $40k → 12%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SW IL: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 8 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$1.4M
$9k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LC
    LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $206k · revenue +34%
  • TF
    Transportation for Illinois Coalition
    6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +2%
  • CA
    COLLINSVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • SA
    SCOTT AIR FORCE BALL COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Illinois Community College System Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
2
Southern Illinois Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
3
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
4
Champaign County Community Development Corporation

Economic development within champaign county, il and surrounding communities

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5
St Louis Regional Economic Development Alliance

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…

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6
Southern Illinois Now

Sharing the good in southern illinois and advancing our region as a great place to live, work, and do business.

Community Improvement
7
Illinois Fiscal Policy Council
Public Benefit
8
Gilmore Foundation
Philanthropy
9
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

—
10
Central Illinois Board of Realtors

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…

—
11
Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association

Advancement and promote the transporation design and construction industry in illinois.

—
12
Chamber of Commerce - Greater Beloit

Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Illinois College Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE: $558,395 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLEST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATION: $240,000 · OtherST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATIONLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $206,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOISSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE: $75,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE+2 more: $34,000 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN ILLINOI…BELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 201 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationBELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP …COLLINSVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCOLLINSVILLE AREA CO…Transportation for Illinois Coalition: $102,500 · Community ImprovementTransport…ILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D: $25,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS …
Other$1,113,395Education$275,000Community Improvement$127,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATION: $240,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $206,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTransportation for Illinois Coalition: $102,500 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetBELLEVILLE TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 201 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetCOLLINSVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetILLINOIS BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ILLINOIS ECONOMIC D: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program?

    Find your warmest path to Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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