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UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY INC
Bring together in a united appeal all possible campaigns of community community accepted health welfare rec agencies local statenationa
$115k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
1
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Human Services$238kYouth Development$127kCivil Rights$49kCrime & Legal$38kHousing & Shelter$35kFood & Nutrition$33kHealth$27kReligion$8kOther$331k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
aid children
2020
spiritualhousingaid childrenfood
2021
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2022
—
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,375
Median grant
1
States reached
$147k
Total assets
Largest grants
- COLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AG$7,000
- MID-ILL BIG BROTHERBIG SI$7,000
- SALVATION ARMY OF COLES CO$6,500
- THE HAVEN$6,500
- PEACE MEAL SENIOR CITIZEN$6,500
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF COLE$6,375
- COLES COUNTY CASA$6,250
- HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL I$6,250
- CAMP NEW HOPE$6,250
- MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CEN$6,250
- MATTOON AREA YMCA$5,625
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$806k · 14 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
10
Total granted
$806k
$80k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+35%
+22%
Still filing today
71%
60%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsCrime & LegalHealthOther
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
- CCCOLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING7× · 2018–2024 · $114k · revenue +35%
- CNCAMP NEW HOPE7× · 2018–2024 · $88k · revenue +12%
- MAMATTOON AREA YMCA7× · 2018–2024 · $66k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS CLARK & COLES COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $12k
- CFCOALITION FOR PEOPLE IN NEEDone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -6%
- SSSTANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +172%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Christian Social Services of Illinois
Social services agency devoted to care and treatment of individuals and families
Human Services
2
West Central Illinois Nutrition
Charitable services for the elderly
Food & Nutrition
3
Central Illinois Services
Provide affordable housing and other services to low & moderate income families
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4
Hands of Hope Illinois
Education
5
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc
Charitable food distribution.
Food & Nutrition
6
Illinois Children's Healthcare
Human Services
7
Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
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8
Genesis Health System (Il)
We, Genesis Health System and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
Health
9
Southwest Chicago Homeless Services
To provide food, clothing, case management and placement in housing, as well as referrals for additional supportive services. a commitment to helping homeless and housing-insecure persons and strive to end homelessness in our communities…
Human Services
10
Northern Il Helping Hands Food Pantry Nfp
To provide food to low income families.
Food & Nutrition
11
Casa of West Central Illinois
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
Crime & Legal
12
Palos Community Hospital
Palos Community Hospital (Palos) is a 501(c)(3) community hospital whose primary objective is the provision of inpatient and outpatient services that are responsive to the health care needs of the residents of southwestern Cook County and…
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of East Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$364,789Human Services$238,280Youth Development$127,425Civil Rights$49,425Crime & Legal$38,226Housing & Shelter$34,900Food & Nutrition$32,783
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 MID-ILLINI BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds MATTOON AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds PEACE MEAL SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION ↗
- Who funds MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CEN ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds FIT-2-SERVE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN TRAIL BOY SCOUTS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS SCOUTS OF RIVER BLUFFS COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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.
Southeastern Illinois CommunityIL35.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Southeastern Illinois Community · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · The Sparks Foundation Trust · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COALITION FOR PEOPLE IN NEED.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 371317209 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COALITION FOR PEOPLE IN NEED, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to United Way of Coles County Inc?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Coles County Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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