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The Community Foundation of Macon County
Our mission is to connect the philanthropic goals of donors with the needs of macon county, and through leadership and community engagement, identify and address those needs.
- $8.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 152
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 133
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $7.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,356,141
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 133
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $63M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Community Foundation of Macon County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 143 | $7.1M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 133 | $5.7M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $3.9M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 109 | $3.9M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 97 | $4.1M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $3.4M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 80 | $3.4M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 74 | $3.1M | 36% |
98% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Education$9.2MHuman Services$3.5MReligion$3.4MFood & Nutrition$3.3MHealth$2.7MArts & Culture$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.5MEnvironment$663kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast Community Fund | $2,664,612 | 9 | 19% |
| Heritage Behavioral Health Center | $1,850,783 | 8 | 4% |
| Ursuline Academy of St Teresa | $1,713,838 | 9 | n/a |
| Millikin University | $1,461,059 | 7 | 0% |
| Richland Community College Foundation | $1,316,102 | 9 | 14% |
| Decatur Public Schools | $1,134,487 | 9 | n/a |
| United Way of Decatur and Mid Il | $956,223 | 9 | 14% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $890,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Holy Family Church | $655,375 | 9 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $649,445 | 9 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast Community Fund | $2,664,612 | 9 | 19% |
| Heritage Behavioral Health Center | $1,850,783 | 8 | 4% |
| Ursuline Academy of St Teresa | $1,713,838 | 9 | n/a |
| Millikin University | $1,461,059 | 7 | 0% |
| Richland Community College Foundation | $1,316,102 | 9 | 14% |
| Decatur Public Schools | $1,134,487 | 9 | n/a |
| United Way of Decatur and Mid Il | $956,223 | 9 | 14% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $890,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Holy Family Church | $655,375 | 9 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $649,445 | 9 | n/a |
| Decatur Area Arts Council Inc | $610,267 | 9 | 27% |
| Dove Inc | $607,491 | 9 | n/a |
| St Teresa Educational Foundation | $599,790 | 9 | 14% |
| St Patrick School | $582,950 | 9 | n/a |
| United States Catholic Conference | $547,082 | 9 | n/a |
| Lutheran School Association | $540,189 | 9 | n/a |
| Clinton Community YMCA | $500,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Children's Museum of Illinois | $460,658 | 9 | 16% |
| Chesterfield Presbyterian Church | $458,150 | 9 | n/a |
| The Heights Foundation Inc | $456,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Good Samaritan Inn | $446,968 | 9 | 30% |
| Hope Lutheran Church | $423,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $417,946 | 3 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $416,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Macon County Conservation Foundation | $410,008 | 9 | 67% |
| Decatur Public Schools Foundation | $402,864 | 6 | 13% |
| First Christian Church of Decatur Illinois Inc | $373,150 | 9 | n/a |
| Hospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc | $355,366 | 7 | 2% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Decatur | $355,005 | 7 | 3% |
| Old Kings Orchard Community Center Inc | $352,119 | 6 | 22% |
| Purdue Research Foundation | $348,569 | 4 | 0% |
| Decatur Parks Foundation Inc | $330,812 | 9 | 15% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Decatur Inc | $321,123 | 9 | 13% |
| Macon County Health Department | $303,393 | 5 | n/a |
| Barrier Island Group for the Arts | $255,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Webster Cantrell Youth Advocacy | $238,996 | 5 | 1% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $213,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Holy Name Cathedral | $209,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Richland Community College | $207,842 | 9 | n/a |
| Decatur-Macon County Opportunities Corp | $205,798 | 7 | 1% |
| Riverview Baptist Church | $201,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Encore Development Services | $200,000 | 1 | 18% |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Foundation Inc | $195,000 | 7 | 0% |
| City of Decatur | $194,666 | 8 | n/a |
| Macon-Piatt | $185,826 | 5 | n/a |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc | $185,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Night Ministry | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society of Il Inc | $173,100 | 4 | 75% |
| Historic Properties Preservation Foundation | $170,780 | 8 | 81% |
| Baby Talk Inc | $168,830 | 9 | 1% |
| Decatur Township | $167,630 | 3 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Central Illinois | $164,880 | 9 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois | $164,850 | 3 | 8% |
| Webster-Cantrell Hall | $162,574 | 4 | 2% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $156,106 | 5 | n/a |
| First Evangelical Lutheran Church | $152,925 | 7 | n/a |
| McCallum Theatre Foundation Inc | $151,740 | 6 | 24% |
| New City Fellowship | $149,050 | 4 | n/a |
| Decatur First United Methodist Church | $143,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Mamie D Hayes Education Foundation Inc | $143,007 | 4 | 95% |
| Community Health Improvement Center | $138,945 | 8 | 0% |
| Decatur Community Tennis Foundation | $136,500 | 7 | 86% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $136,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporation | $135,700 | 7 | 1% |
| Village of Mt Zion | $133,362 | 4 | n/a |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $133,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Christian Church | $130,700 | 9 | n/a |
| Hope Hospice and Community Services Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Il | $127,500 | 2 | n/a |
| First United Methodist Church | $126,050 | 4 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Coachella Valley Rescue Mission | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New Beginnings Church of God | $122,532 | 6 | n/a |
| Macon County Casa | $113,705 | 5 | 5% |
| Macon Resources Inc | $113,696 | 5 | 0% |
| Missouri Military Academy | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Quincy University Corporation | $109,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Decatur and Macon County Animal Shelter Foundation | $107,713 | 8 | 15% |
| St Pauls Lutheran | $107,600 | 7 | n/a |
| The Sanctuary Golf Club Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Decatur Memorial Foundation | $102,758 | 9 | 0% |
| God's Shelter of Love | $100,866 | 7 | 3% |
| Purvis Tabor Charitable Trust | $97,500 | 7 | 16% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $91,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $90,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Little Theatre - on the Square Inc | $82,700 | 4 | 1% |
| Saint John Lutheran Church | $82,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Decatur Cares Rescue Ministries | $76,924 | 4 | n/a |
| Mt Zion High School | $76,360 | 4 | n/a |
| Decatur Day Care Center Inc | $76,279 | 4 | 3% |
| Star Legacy Foundation | $75,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Macon County Historical Society | $74,240 | 8 | 67% |
| Faith Fellowship Christian Church | $70,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Sullivan CUSD #300 | $69,282 | 5 | n/a |
| The Alliance of Illinois Community Foundations | $67,097 | 1 | n/a |
| Extended Hands | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unitarian Universalist Fellowship | $61,500 | 6 | n/a |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Housing and Resources Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carle Development Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Association of Zoo Keepers | $59,150 | 6 | n/a |
| Beautify Decatur Coalition | $59,036 | 4 | 84% |
| Theatre 7 | $58,800 | 9 | n/a |
| Cancer Care Illinois Found | $55,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Community Pregnancy Clinics Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New Life Pregnancy Center | $52,975 | 7 | 1% |
| Our Lady of Lourdes | $52,630 | 5 | n/a |
| Hope Lives Youth Ranch a Non-Profit Corporation | $52,250 | 1 | 35% |
| Decatur Memorial Hospital | $52,130 | 3 | 0% |
| Meridian Ag Foundation | $51,950 | 3 | 16% |
| Effingham Water Authority | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monticello Cusd 25 | $48,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Mt Zion Presbyterian Church | $48,050 | 9 | n/a |
| Decatur Area Convention & Visitors Bureau | $47,903 | 3 | 6% |
| Block X Block | $46,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Illinois State University Foundation | $46,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arcola School District | $44,690 | 3 | n/a |
| Morning Glory Community Church | $44,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Decatur Junior Football League | $44,050 | 3 | n/a |
| Prairieland Service Coordination Inc | $44,020 | 2 | 1% |
| St Mary's Hospital Decatur of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis | $43,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Home Environmental Learning Project Inc | $42,238 | 2 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Illinois Inc | $41,700 | 4 | 2% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $40,590 | 5 | 0% |
| Decatur Area Habitat | $40,300 | 2 | 4% |
| Memorial Health System | $40,260 | 2 | 0% |
| Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America 312 - Greater St Louis Area Council | $39,790 | 2 | 0% |
| Mt Zion United Methodist Church | $39,773 | 4 | n/a |
| Near West Side Restoration and Preservation Society | $38,337 | 4 | 100% |
| Meridian School District | $37,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunshine Supplies for Teachers Nfp | $35,330 | 2 | 28% |
| Hill City Church Inc | $34,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Gallery 510 Art & Framing An Illinois Art Gallery | $33,300 | 3 | 18% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $33,100 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $31,970 | 3 | 0% |
| Kerbystrong | $30,250 | 3 | 43% |
| Economic Development Corp of Decatur-Macon County | $30,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Decatur Trades & Labor Assembly | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Argenta-Oreana Elm School | $29,426 | 2 | n/a |
| Willow Tree Missions Non-Profit Corporation | $29,287 | 1 | 4% |
| Starr Program | $28,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Illinois Central College Foundation | $28,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Living Desert The | $27,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Lincoln Square Theater | $27,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Flower Montessori School | $26,100 | 2 | 8% |
| Lincoln Trails Council Boy Scouts of America | $25,200 | 2 | 1% |
| Our Lady of the Holy Spirit | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodford Homes Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Piatt County Nursing Home | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pawprint Ministries NFP | $23,600 | 2 | 7% |
| Passion Community Church | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Thinkwell Makerspace Innovations | $21,850 | 2 | 20% |
| The Kirby Foundation | $21,500 | 2 | 23% |
| Decatur Christian Schools Inc | $21,384 | 3 | 1% |
| Warrensburg Cusd 11 | $20,997 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Child 1st Center | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Zion Foundation for Quality Education | $20,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Cerro Gordo Church of the Brethren | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mama's House Ministries Fka Heartbeat at 22 | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Moms Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Care Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Ronald McDonald House Global | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Life Changers Church | $19,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Glad Tidings Assembly of God | $18,991 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Coachella Valley | $18,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Decatur Public Library Foundation | $18,450 | 3 | 82% |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $18,193 | 2 | 0% |
| Macon Piatt Roe | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Eagles Nest Bible Fellowship Church | $16,432 | 2 | n/a |
| Diocese of Springfield in Illinois Catholic Pastoral Center | $16,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Macon County Conservation District | $15,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Environmental Council | $15,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Cerro Gordo Cusd 10 | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Covenant Church of Naples | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brenda Lambert Memorial Found | $14,779 | 1 | n/a |
| Governor Oglesby Mansion Inc | $13,953 | 1 | 58% |
| Central Illinois Foodbank Inc | $13,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Shemilah Outreach Center | $13,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Okaw Valley Cusd 302 | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Macon Co Mental Health Board | $12,726 | 1 | n/a |
| Auxillary of Hshs St Marys Hospital | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piatt County Animal Shelter | $11,850 | 1 | 5% |
| Mission to the World Pca Inc | $11,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Champions for Life Wrestling Club Inc | $11,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Westminister Presbyterian Church | $11,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Board of Trustees of Illinois State University | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Christian Academy of McLean Co Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Symphony Orchestra Guild of Decatur | $11,000 | 2 | 3% |
| James Millikin Homestead Inc | $10,900 | 1 | 29% |
| Eastern Illinois Foodbank | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mar-Lu-Ridge Camp and Retreat Center Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Decatur Policeman's Benevolent & Protective Association | $10,250 | 1 | 5% |
| University of Kentucky | $10,046 | 1 | n/a |
| Piatt County Farm Bureau Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Olive Tree Projects | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Macon County Farm Bureau Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Autism Speaks Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Living Stones Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stone Shapers Nfp | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| America's Charities | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meds & Food for Kids | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Children of Haiti | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carver Project | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Heartland Community College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Ambucs Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Changinggears Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Engineer in the Classroom Program | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Haven Foundation Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Village of Warrensburg | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana University Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sangamon Valley Cusd 9 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shell Museum and Educational Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veterans Recognition of Central Illinois | $9,829 | 1 | n/a |
| Skywalker Outreach Services Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of the Kickapoo Rail Trail | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | $8,315 | 1 | n/a |
| Decatur Sister Cities Committee | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Illinois State Historical Society | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cadence International | $7,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Deland Weldon Cusd 57 | $7,520 | 1 | n/a |
| Sista Girls and Friends Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $7,424 | 1 | n/a |
| Bement Cusd 5 | $7,420 | 1 | n/a |
| The Incspot Ltd | $7,250 | 1 | 2% |
| Cefs Economic Opportunity Corporation | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Lincoln | $6,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Interchurch Council of Blue Mound-Boody and Stonington | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Church of the Living God the Pillar & Ground of the Truth of Muskagee | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dunebrook Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sauk Valley Foodbank | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Laporte County Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Access Afterschool | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Blue Mound Police Department | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Whiteside County | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| CGH Health Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern Illinois University- Carbondale | $5,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Riding Warriors at Sams Reach | $5,730 | 1 | 7% |
| Cjs Loving Hands Inc | $5,665 | 1 | n/a |
| Fdny Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Eureka College | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Remote Area Medical | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends Who Care LLC | $5,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Bradley University | $5,150 | 1 | 0% |
| University Park Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Inc | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| National Parkinson Foundation Inc | $5,084 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Community Foundation of Macon County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 17 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 146.
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Andreas FoundationMI97.8× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Andreas Foundation · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · James Millikin Trust A · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · Howard G Buffett Foundation · Memorial Health System Group · John & Judy Rice Family Foundation
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.
Compare The Community Foundation of Macon County with peer funders
About The Community Foundation of Macon County
- How much does The Community Foundation of Macon County give?
- The Community Foundation of Macon County reported 152 itemized grants totaling $7,241,214, out of $8,437,986 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 133 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Community Foundation of Macon County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (12%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Community Foundation of Macon County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northeast Community Fund ($2.7M), Heritage Behavioral Health Center ($1.9M), Ursuline Academy of St Teresa ($1.7M).
- Does The Community Foundation of Macon County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Community Foundation of Macon County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Andreas Foundation, John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee, United Way of Decatur and Mid Il.
- Where is The Community Foundation of Macon County based?
- The Community Foundation of Macon County is based in IL.
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