· Private foundation
The Grimes Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHAMPAIGN AVIATION MUSEUM GRANT | $44,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BETHESDA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| LOGAN CHAMPAIGN COUNT MENTAL HEALTH | $7,500 |
| CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| TECUMSEH COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| SUMMER THEATER CAMP | $4,734 |
| CARING KITCHEN | $4,300 |
| CANCER ASSOC CC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| OCHSNER MEMORIAL FUND | $2,000 |
| UNITY CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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 +69% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $333k · revenue +101%
- CACHAMPAIGN AVIATION MUSEUM5× · 2018–2025 · $163k · revenue +69%
- GFGRANDWORKS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $121k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- MHMercy Health Foundation - Cancer Ceone grant, 2024 · $40k
- COCity of Urbana AWOSone grant, 2020 · $15k
- UYUrbana Youth Centerone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Education
Manchester University respects the infinite worth of every individual and graduates persons of ability and conviction who draw upon their education and faith to lead principled, productive, and compassionate lives that improve the human…
Drury University is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning. (Continued on Schedule O)
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 66 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 Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRANDWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIMES FLYING LAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Caring Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds LOGAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Urbana Champaign County Senior Citizens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRIMES FIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Morikami Inc ↗
- Who funds The BrownRidge 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: Dayton Foundation Depository · The Moore Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Grimes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grimes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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