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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

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$283k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.8MFood & Nutrition$2.1MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$465kPhilanthropy$418kHousing & Shelter$391kEmployment$303kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $1,329,328, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,492,096 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $162,768 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $526k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $473k
  • $250k+1 grant · $283k
$24,863
Median grant
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States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DECATUR FAMILY YMCA: $58k → 15%CLINTON COMMUNITY YMCA: $13k → 11%CLINTON COMMUNITY YMCA: $13k → 11%CLINTON COMMUNITY YMCA: $11k → 11%DECATUR FAMILY YMCA: $36k → 15%DECATUR FAMILY YMCA: $36k → 15%DECATUR FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 15%DECATUR FAMILY YMCA: $34k → 15%DECATUR FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $29k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 15%GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $12k → 15%SALVATION ARMY DECATUR: $262k → 15%SALVATION ARMY DECATUR: $152k → 15%SALVATION ARMY DECATUR: $149k → 15%SALVATION ARMY DECATUR: $45k → 15%SALVATION ARMY DECATUR: $33k → 15%SALVATION ARMY DECATUR: $32k → 15%SALVATION ARMY DECATUR: $20k → 15%DECATUR MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITES C: $105k → 15%DECATUR MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITES C: $65k → 15%PRAIRIELAND SERVICE COORDINATION: $63k → 15%EMPOWERMENT OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $59k → 15%DECATUR MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITES C: $42k → 15%EMPOWERMENT OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $30k → 15%REASONABLE SERVICE FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 15%PRAIRIELAND SERVICE COORDINATION: $19k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 40 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
21

Total granted

$8.2M
$344k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+9%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $693k · revenue +573% · 53% of their budget
  • NC
    NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND
    5× · 2019–2023 · $530k · revenue +158%
  • CI
    Central Illinois Foodbank Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $481k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TM
    TAYLORVILLE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -39%
  • IP
    INDEPENDENCE POINTE
    one grant, 2017 · $43k
  • DP
    DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
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.

1
Central Illinois Services

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…

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2
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
3
Decatur Cooperative Ministry Inc

Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.

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4
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
5
Decatur Area Senior Citizens Council Inc

Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois

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6
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
7
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
8
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
9
Crosspoint

Crosspoint human services provides quality human services in a competent and reliable fashion to individuals, families and the community.

Health
10
Community Health Care Inc

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.

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11
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Improvement Center; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD: $795,168 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELDNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND: $529,935 · OtherNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUNDDOVE INC: $370,413 · OtherDOVE INCDECATUR DAY CARE CENTER INC: $294,573 · OtherDECATUR DAY CARE CENTER INCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND: $282,500 · OtherNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUNDMACON COUNTY CASA: $273,949 · OtherMACON COUNTY CASAWEBSTER-CANTRELL HALL: $214,059 · Other+64 more: $2,296,701 · Other+64 moreTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $692,588 · Human ServicesTHE SALVATION AR…DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $300,266 · Human ServicesDECATUR-MACON CO…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DECATUR: $256,662 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRIS…PRAIRIELAND SERVICE COORDINATION INC: $82,000 · Human ServicesPRAIRIELAND SERV…+4 more: $74,827 · Human ServicesCommunity Health Improvement Center: $359,283 · HealthCommunity Heal…HERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $297,731 · HealthHERITAGE BEHAV…MACON RESOURCES INC: $270,342 · HealthMACON RESOURCE…GROWING STRONG SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $158,440 · HealthGROWING STRONG…ENCORE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $66,076 · HealthSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER: $60,905 · Health+3 more: $47,482 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC: $477,079 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $371,909 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…Central Illinois Foodbank Inc: $480,950 · Food & NutritionGOOD SAMARITAN INN: $296,885 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $7,500 · Food & NutritionBABY TALK INC: $428,118 · EmploymentOLD KINGS ORCHARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $128,900 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,057,298Human Services$1,406,343Health$1,260,259Youth Development$848,988Food & Nutrition$785,335Employment$428,118Recreation & Sports$128,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $692,588 over 7y, 53% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND: $529,935 over 5y, 21% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $480,950 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC: $477,079 over 7y, 21% of budgetBABY TALK INC: $428,118 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $371,909 over 6y, 10% of budgetCommunity Health Improvement Center: $359,283 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetDECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $300,266 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHERITAGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $297,731 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN INN: $296,885 over 6y, 23% of budgetDECATUR DAY CARE CENTER INC: $294,573 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetMACON COUNTY CASA: $273,949 over 7y, 12% of budgetMACON RESOURCES INC: $270,342 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DECATUR: $256,662 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetWEBSTER-CANTRELL HALL: $214,059 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGROWING STRONG SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $158,440 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $147,018 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOLD KINGS ORCHARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $128,900 over 5y, 19% of budgetRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $121,559 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF LAND OF LINCOLN: $105,455 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPRAIRIELAND SERVICE COORDINATION INC: $82,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILD 1ST CENTER: $76,636 over 2y, 79% of budgetENCORE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $66,076 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER: $60,905 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $53,042 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,422 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTAYLORVILLE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $48,034 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $43,192 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLINTON COMMUNITY YMCA: $37,020 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDEWITT COUNTY FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $36,770 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDECATUR AREA HABITAT: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMOULTRIE COUNTY COUNSELING CENTER: $23,680 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetExtended Hands: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL: $14,161 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOSF Healthcare System: $12,427 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $11,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MACON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW VISION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,307 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC: $6,144 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCAMP NEW HOPE INC: $5,262 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPrairieland United Way Inc: $5,025 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Andreas FoundationJohn Ullrich Foundati…Ts & Juanita Ballance…James Millikin Trust AThe Erwin and Linda A…Amherst F Hardy Found…United Way of Central…Howard G Buffett Foun…East Central Il Area …Henry M Staley Declar…Memorial Health Syste…
The Community Foundation of Macon CountyIL69.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Decatur and Mid Il funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Decatur and Mid Il. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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