· Private foundation
The Selma J Hartke Community 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $123,957 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $750,773 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $626,816 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k15 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACOUPIN CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED | $80,000 |
| MACOUPIN CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED | $20,000 |
| HEARTS UNITED ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| LITCHFIELD FOOD PANTRY C/O DOROTHY ERNST | $2,000 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER PER CLIENT RQST 1/27/22 LIVING ALTERNATIVES PREGNACY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| STAUNTON HELPING HANDS CENTER C/O HARVEY STEPHENS | $2,000 |
| CARLINVILLE CHURCHES GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES, INC. | $2,000 |
| GILLESPIE AREA CARING CENTER C/O HARVEY STEPHENS | $2,000 |
| MT. OLIVE AREA CARE CENTER C/O HARVEY STEPHENS | $1,700 |
| NOKOMIS FOOD PANTRY C/O HARVEY STEPHENS | $1,700 |
| PANHANDLE PANTRY C/O HARVEY STEPHENS | $1,700 |
| PER CLIENT REQUEST 1/27/22 MIDWEST FOOD BANK C/O DOROTHY ERNST | $1,500 |
| MARTHA'S FOOD PANTRY ATTN DANIELLA EICHEN | $1,400 |
| COFFEEN FOOD PANTRY C/O HARVEY STEPHENS | $1,400 |
| /A BUILDING FUND PER BOARD REQUEST 1/27/22 LITCHFIELD FOOD PANTRY C/O DOROTHY ERNST | $857 |
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse Pregnancy Center Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 16 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
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.
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