· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MACON COUNTY’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 144 grants below total $5,743,694 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,389,650 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $645,956 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k83 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $756k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $410,000 |
| HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER | $346,249 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $228,494 |
| DOVE | $201,894 |
| ST TERESA HIGH SCHOOL | $179,750 |
| NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND | $178,015 |
| UNITED WAY OF DECATURMID-ILLINOIS | $170,550 |
| HOLY FAMILY CHURCH | $140,433 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL IL | $129,600 |
| RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $127,605 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS | $126,465 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST PATRICK SCHOOL | $97,800 |
| HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $96,500 |
| CHESTERFIELD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $91,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +158%
- RCRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +50%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL8× · 2017–2024 · $898k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TATHE ALLIANCE OF ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2020 · $67k
- EHExtended Handsone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -91%
- EWEFFINGHAM WATER AUTHORITYone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
None.
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…
To support and promote mental health services in the four counties of carroll, lee, ogle, and whiteside.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Decatur Memorial Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Incspot Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
138 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. 138 of the 229 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds ST TERESA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MACON COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DECATUR ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD KINGS ORCHARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ↗
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: 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
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 The Community Foundation of Macon County 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.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
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.