· Private foundation
The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $6,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FIVE CITIES BAROQUE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FIVE CITIES BAROQUE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $2,000 |
| CHADDOCK CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OF DECATUR | $1,125 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME | $1,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $700 |
| DOVE INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DPDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +16%
University of Illinois Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +49%- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND7× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- DPDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- RCRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODISTone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
Decatur memorial hospital (dmh) serves the healthcare needs of the people of central illinois through operation of a 280-bed acute care hospital and related facilities providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and physician services.
The foundation's mission is to support and benefit decatur memorial hospital (a 280-bed acute care hospital and related facilities providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and physician service). it does this by conducting fund…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
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…
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
Our purpose is to serve donors in achieving their philanthropic objectives, to create and build a lasting source of revenue to benefit the residents of our community, and to provide leadership and resources in addressing community needs.
We are a credit union serving our members with a place for loans and a place to save their money.
To support social services in decatur county.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
- Who funds CHADDOCK CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD OF DECATUR ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Macon County · Andreas Foundation · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · James Millikin Trust A · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · Howard G Buffett Foundation · Michael D Andreas Foundation · Pilling Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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