· Public charity
United Way of Decatur and Mid Il
UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID ILlinois leads community transformation throguh effective, efficient, and integrated solutions that empower everyone to be self-sufficient
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 33 grants below total $1,329,328 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,492,096 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $162,768 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $526k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $473k
- $250k+1 grant · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND | $282,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $144,300 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $136,813 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN INN | $85,125 |
| DECATUR FAMILY YMCA | $55,352 |
| EMPOWERMENT OPPORTUNITY CENTER | $51,171 |
| DOVE INC | $47,000 |
| OLD KING'S ORCHARD CENTER | $44,550 |
| PRAIRIELAND SERVICE COORDINATION | $39,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CULB OF DECATUR | $36,078 |
| BABY TALK | $36,000 |
| MACON COUNTY CASA | $33,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,500 |
| NEW VISION COMMUNITY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER | $29,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $693k · revenue +566% · 53% of their budget
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND5× · 2019–2023 · $530k · revenue +158%
- CICentral Illinois Foodbank Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $481k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TMTAYLORVILLE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -59%
- IPINDEPENDENCE POINTEone grant, 2017 · $43k
- DPDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
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.
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
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…
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
Voluntary Action Center, which serves Bureau, Dekalb, Kendall, Lasalle and Putnam counties provides high quality services that address the basic transportation and nutrition needs of its communities.
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.
Crosspoint human services provides quality human services in a competent and reliable fashion to individuals, families and the community.
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 United Way of Central Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dewitt County Friendship Center. 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 53 years old; the field is 37. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 95 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 THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC ↗
- Who funds BABY TALK INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health Improvement Center ↗
- Who funds DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
- Who funds DECATUR DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MACON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DECATUR ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER-CANTRELL HALL ↗
- Who funds GROWING STRONG SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds OLD KINGS ORCHARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF LAND OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIELAND SERVICE COORDINATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILD 1ST CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENCORE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TAYLORVILLE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Macon County · Andreas Foundation · John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · James Millikin Trust A · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · Howard G Buffett Foundation · East Central Il Area Agency on Aging Inc · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Memorial Health System Group
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 Decatur and Mid Il 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.