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The Carle Foundation

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$51MHealth$19M
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,138,540
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Carle Development Foundation$3,138,540
The Carle Foundation Hospital$278,340
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Community Cancer Center Foundation: $61k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $45.0M → 19%Carle Development Foundation: $3.1M → 19%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IL: $2.5M → 19%Carle Development Foundation: $2.3M → 19%THE CARLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 19%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IL: $1.9M → 19%THE CARLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 19%THE CARLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 19%THE CARLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 19%THE CARLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 19%Carle West Physician Group: $1.2M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $456k → 19%Board of Trustees of the University of IL: $442k → 19%THE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL: $278k → 19%THE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL: $278k → 19%The Carle Foundation Hospital: $278k → 19%THE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL: $278k → 19%THE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL: $278k → 19%The Carle Foundation Hospital: $278k → 19%THE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL: $278k → 19%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IL: $227k → 19%Carle Cancer Insitute Normal LLC: $68k → 19%Carle BroMenn Medical Center: $13k → 19%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69M · 4 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +127% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$69M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $46M · revenue +127%
  • CD
    Carle Development Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +221% · 31% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CW
    Carle West Physician Group Incgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +429%
  • CC
    Carle Cancer Institute Normal LLC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $68k · revenue -96%
  • CC
    Community Cancer Center Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $61k · revenue 0%
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
Methodist Medical Center of Illinois

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
2
Carle Retirement Centers Inc

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Human Services
3
Methodist Medical Center Foundation

The methodist medical center foundation (mmcf) d/b/a carle health center for philanthropy - greater peoria is a tax-exempt illinois not-for-profit corporation established to solicit and manage gifts and bequests on behalf of carle health -…

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4
Hoopeston Community Memorial Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
5
Carle Health Care Incorporated

The corporation is organized and shall be exclusively operated as a not- for- profit corporation for charitable benevolent, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986.…

Health
6
The Carle Foundation

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
7
Proctor Health Systems

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
8
Hult Center for Healthy Living Inc

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

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9
Cris Healthy Aging

Cris healthy aging is a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping older adults (and persons with disabilites, ages 18-59 years) safe, healthy, and independent in their own homes for as long as possible by providing services designed to…

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10
Proctor Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
11
Richland Memorial Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
12
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carle Development Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Maple Grove Development Corporation. 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

10 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Illinois Foundation: $45,500,216 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationCarle Development Foundation: $15,716,048 · HealthCarle Development FoundationTHE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL: $2,226,720 · HealthTHE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITALCarle West Physician Group Inc: $1,180,330 · HealthCarle West Physician Group Inc+1 more: $12,667 · HealthTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $5,141,410 · Other+2 more: $129,273 · Other
Education$45,500,216Health$19,135,765Other$5,270,683

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $45,500,216 over 2y, 17% of budgetCarle Development Foundation: $15,716,048 over 8y, 31% of budgetTHE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL: $2,226,720 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCarle West Physician Group Inc: $1,180,330 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCarle Cancer Institute Normal LLC: $68,046 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Cancer Center Foundation: $61,227 over 1y, 14% of budgetCarle BroMenn Medical Center: $12,667 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Carle Development FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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, FY20–24
    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.

    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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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