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University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois.

$312M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$307M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.1BScience & Tech$1.1MCommunity Improvement$100kHealth$30kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$833,128
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Illinois$306,529,358
University of Illinois Alumni Association$833,128
Orthopterist's Society$269,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University: $67k → 8%Orthopterist's Society: $269k → 19%Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone: $100k → 25%Princeton University: $106k → 11%Orthopterist's Society: $253k → 19%Orthopterist's Society: $220k → 19%Orthopterists Society: $182k → 19%Orthopterists Society: $154k → 19%University of Illinois: $306.5M → 19%University of Illinois: $266.6M → 19%University of Illinois: $259.8M → 19%University of Illinois: $244.7M → 19%University of Illinois: $227.4M → 19%University of Illinois: $206.3M → 19%University of Illinois: $203.4M → 19%University of Illinois: $200.5M → 19%University of Illinois: $190.2M → 19%University of Illinois Alumni Association: $1.8M → 19%University of Illinois Alumni Association: $1.7M → 19%University of Illinois Alumni Association: $833k → 19%University of Illinois Alumni Association: $640k → 19%University of Illinois Alumni Association: $306k → 19%Parkland College Foundation: $45k → 19%Carle Development Foundation: $30k → 19%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1B · 3 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$2.1B
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+24%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1B
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5.3M · revenue -31% · 38% of their budget
  • OS
    ORTHOPTERISTS' SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +63% · 73% of their budget

Funded once

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2023 · $106k · revenue -11%
  • SI
    Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -46%
  • PC
    PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +24%
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
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
2
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
10
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carle Development Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $2,105,262,732 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS+2 more: $6,355,233 · OtherThe Trustees of Princeton University: $106,313 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $66,666 · EducationPARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,316 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $21,083 · EducationSouthernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone Inc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCarle Development Foundation: $30,000 · HealthCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $5,220 · Human Services
Other$2,111,617,965Education$239,378Community Improvement$100,000Health$30,000Human Services$5,220

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5,277,233 over 5y, 38% of budgetORTHOPTERISTS' SOCIETY: $1,078,000 over 5y, 73% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $106,313 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $66,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,316 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCarle Development Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $21,083 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $5,220 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 University of Illinois Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Illinois Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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