· Private foundation
Susan C House - Educational Xxxxx7008
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART GRIFFIN HIGH SCHOOL | $44,025 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE | $27,500 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $24,198 |
| SPRINGFIELD AREA READING IS FUNDAMENTAL | $23,000 |
| ST AGNES SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $17,000 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF THE | $15,700 |
| LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT | $7,250 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $4,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD ART ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% of your 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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 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
- MCMercy Communities Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $179k · revenue +92%
- SASpringfield Area Arts Council7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +8%
- ISILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- HIHOPE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIESone grant, 2019 · $11k
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -23%
- SVSANGAMON VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONYone grant, 2018 · $3k
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 mission of the springfield symphony orchestra is to enrich the lives of the people in springfield and the surrounding region by presenting quality performances of symphonic music and providing excellent education programs.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
To collect, exhibit and preserve works of art that inspire and educate. through art exhibitions and art education, the museum seeks to engage the entire community in the enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts.
None
The florence symphony orchestra's mission is to perform a broad range of orchestral music including appropriate genres of classical, american traditional and popular music, and to engage, educate and enrich our audiences of all ages.
The sioux city symphony orchestra is committed to changing lives through musical excellence for the diverse communities we serve and beyond through innovative performances, educational programs, and culturally inclusive outreach.
Dedicated to advancing the art of ballet through premier education, performance, outreach and collaberation.
To promote the arts and provide an information system for and about the arts.
Lincoln's symphony orchestra will present inspiring experiences that walcome all members to our community to discover and cultivate a profound, personal connection with live orchestral music.
To Improve and Advance Art Education
Mission of MYA is to build a home with the power of music to enrich the lives of the students and their communities.
To bring our community and the performing arts together. We strive to provide central Illinois with quality theatre, learning opportunities, and a creative outlet for live theatrical arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Girls on the Run of Central Illinois. 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 19 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 Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds Springfield Area Arts Council ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Art Association of Edwards Place ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds SANGAMON VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
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: Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Susan C House - Educational Xxxxx7008 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.