· Public charity
United Way of Central Illinois Inc
United way mobilizes communities to action so all can thrive.we see how our communities' greatest challenges are connected, and how we can bring people and resources together to address them.from strengthening local resilience to advancing health, youth opportunity, and financial security, we're working toward a future whereevery person…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $996,001 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,038,039 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,038 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $718k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $268k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASS FOR KIDS INC | $93,804 |
| COMPASS FOR KIDS INC | $74,220 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $50,000 |
| SOJOURN SHELTER AND SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD | $48,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $45,000 |
| SIU CENTER FOR FAMILY MEDICINE | $45,000 |
| HELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC | $43,079 |
| SENIOR SERVICES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $41,220 |
| HELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC | $40,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $37,500 |
| SPRINGFIELD URBAN LEAGUE | $37,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $35,000 |
| MEMORIAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $35,000 |
| MERCY COMMUNITIES INC | $33,696 |
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 (FY17–20, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCompass for Kids Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +352% · 44% of their budget
- SUSpringfield Urban League Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $939k · revenue +34%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $872k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- CCCentral Counties Health Centers Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $85k · revenue +59%
- CCCommunity Child Care Connection Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue +30%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +102%
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.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
Casa central drives change by empowering individuals and families to thrive - delivering impactful services that transform lives and uplift communities.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
The CCRRN is committed to supporting families, child care providers, and employers in their pursuit of quality child care and family support services that are both available and affordable. To this end,the CCRRN strives to assure
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Youth and Family Solutions and the most unlike its peers is Community Child Care Connection Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 41. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 44 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.
- Who funds Compass for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Springfield Urban League Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SOJOURN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE ILLINOIS CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINDA T OBEIRNE CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF LAND OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds One Hope United - Hudelson Region ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Counties Health Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF SANGAMON C ↗
- Who funds Prairieland United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Wooden It Be Lovely ↗
- Who funds Community Child Care Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds SPARC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUAL ADVOCACY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds Youth Service Bureau ↗
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: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Horace Mann Educators Foundation · M G Nelson Family Foundation · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Memorial Health System Group · Memorial Health System · Aa Harvey Foundation · Carmax Foundation · James Orlandini Foundation · The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr
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 United Way of Central Illinois Inc 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.
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.