Skip to content
The Selma J Hartke Community Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Selma J Hartke Community Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2026still arriving
91
Grants FY2026still arriving
21
States reached
$177k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$2.6MHealth$104kFood & Nutrition$11kHuman Services$7kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k74 grants · $251k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $311k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $444k
$3,500
Median grant
21
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$177,000
MACOUPIN CENTER FOR THE$120,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN$80,250
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY$66,500
GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY$45,750
ILLINOIS COLLEGE$39,500
MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY$36,500
LEWIS AND CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE$32,750
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$28,750
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$28,500
LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$17,250
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$16,750
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$14,000
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY$14,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD$12,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY26–26, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $4k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Xavier University

Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…

Education
3
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
4
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
5
Benedictine University

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…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
12
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 105 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Macoupin Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $140,000 · OtherMacoupin Center for the Developmentally DisabledUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: $80,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGNMACOUPIN CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $80,000 · OtherMACOUPIN CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLEDILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $66,500 · OtherILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITYLEWIS AND CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $32,750 · OtherEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $28,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $28,500 · Other+62 more: $231,557 · Other+62 moreSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $177,000 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIA…Greenville College: $45,750 · EducationGreenville CollegeILLINOIS COLLEGE: $39,500 · EducationILLINOIS COLLEGEMaryville University - St Louis: $36,500 · EducationMaryville University - St Louis+30 more: $134,000 · Education+30 moreLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY CENTER NFP: $5,000 · HealthMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$688,307Education$432,750Health$5,000Human Services$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMacoupin Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $140,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budget
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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Selma J Hartke Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Selma J Hartke Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Selma J Hartke’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home