How much does United Way of Central Illinois Inc give?

United Way of Central Illinois Inc reported 29 itemized grants totaling $996,001, out of $1,038,039 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Central Illinois Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Human Services (14%).

Who are United Way of Central Illinois Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Compass for Kids Inc ($1.5M), Springfield Urban League Inc ($939k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Illinois ($872k).

Does United Way of Central Illinois Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Illinois Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation, Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc, Green Family Charitable Foundation.

Where is United Way of Central Illinois Inc based?

United Way of Central Illinois Inc is based in IL.

United Way of Central Illinois Inc

United Way of Central Illinois Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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…

$1.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$94k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$3.4MHousing & Shelter$1.8MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MEducation$736kEmployment$317kPhilanthropy$244kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 29 grants below total $996,001, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,038,039 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,038 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k24 grants · $718k
$50k–250k4 grants · $268k

$33,696

Median grant

States reached

$8.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SIU CENTER FOR FAMILY MEDICINE	$45,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS	$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

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 33 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+30%

Still filing today

73%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CF
Compass for Kids Inc
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +352% · 44% of their budget
SU
Springfield Urban League Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $939k · revenue +34%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS
9× · 2017–2025 · $872k · revenue +184%

Funded once

CC
Central Counties Health Centers Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $85k · revenue +59%
CC
Community Child Care Connection Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue +30%
TC
THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +102%

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.

04Its 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.

Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal

Center for Family Services

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…

Human Services

Central Illinois Service Access Inc

Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.

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Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health

Service Inc of Illinois

Service Inc. of Illinois was formed in 1989 to provide screening, assessment, evaluation, service planning, referral, linkage, follow-up, & related services to individuals with developmental disabilities and/or developmental delays in 17…

Human Services

Sinnissippi Centers Inc

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.

Health

Child Care Resource & Referral Network

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

Human Services

Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services

Casa Central Social Services Corporation

Casa central drives change by empowering individuals and families to thrive - delivering impactful services that transform lives and uplift communities.

Human Services

Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services

Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services

Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Youth and Family Solutions; the most unlike its peers is The Hope School. 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

37 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. 37 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/37

Grantees still filing

26/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,617,442Youth Development$2,974,188Housing & Shelter$1,061,041Food & Nutrition$900,438Health$792,508Philanthropy$193,881Human Services$133,238

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.

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.

Levi Ray & Shoup FoundationIL36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Central Illinois Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Central Illinois Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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