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United Way of Coles County Inc
Bring together in a united appeal all possible campaigns of community accepted health, welfare, and recreational agencies, local, state, and national
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 11 grants below total $70,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $115,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL I | $6,250 |
| MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CEN | $6,250 |
| COLES COUNTY CASA | $6,250 |
| CAMP NEW HOPE | $6,250 |
| MATTOON AREA YMCA | $5,625 |
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 (FY17–24, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 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 FY2024, 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
- CCCOLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +67%
- CNCAMP NEW HOPE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +24%
- HOHOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- CFCOALITION FOR PEOPLE IN NEEDone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -6%
- SSSTANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER NFPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +69%
- ICIMMACULATE CONCEPTION CONFERENCE OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +37%
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.
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
The trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.
To provide support and assistance to community driven programs and services that seek to improve the quality of life for youth, families and communities.
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
Provide court appointed advocates for children
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of East Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Fit-2-Serve Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds CASA OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MATTOON AREA PADS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CONFERENCE OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Fit-2-Serve Inc ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · The Sparks Foundation Trust Agreement C/O Ray a Sparks · Charleston Area Charitable Foundation · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization 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.
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.
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