· Public charity
University of Illinois Community Credit Union
To assist our members in the management of their financial well-being by providing loans, savings accounts and other financial services in a friendly and professional manner.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $289k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $289,200 |
| COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE OF MAHOMET | $6,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 63% of University of Illinois Community Credit Union’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M
- UWUNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY2× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +16%
- ICICON COLLECTIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $12k
Funded once
- WPWolf Pack Sports Properties LLCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- VCVISIT CHAMPAIGN COUNTY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +150%
- PCPARKLAND COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 8 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization University of Illinois Community Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Illinois Community Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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