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Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp

Urbana-champaign big broadband is a nonprofit organization that was formed to facilitate the transition of a fiber-optic broadband network constructed by the consortium (city of champaign, city of urbana, university of illinois at urbana-champaign), using mostly federal grant funds, to an experienced internet service provider (isp) for…

$127k
Granted FY2018
7
Itemized grants FY2018
7
Organizations funded FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$120k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$16,490
Largest grant, FY2018
$30,000
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$144k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Digital Equality Initiative Foundation$30,0001n/a
Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center$24,4101n/a
Church of the Brethren$16,4971n/a
First Followers$16,4901n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of the University of Illinois$14,05811%
Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club$12,34311%
St Luke Cme Church$6,3001n/a

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.

Community Foundation of East Central IllinoisIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · Eastern Illinois Foodbank

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.

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Find your warmest path to Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp

How much does Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp give?
Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp reported 7 itemized grants totaling $120,098, out of $127,298 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Civil Rights (25%), Religion (19%).
Who are Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Digital Equality Initiative Foundation ($30k), Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center ($24k), Church of the Brethren ($16k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of East Central Illinois, Eastern Illinois Foodbank.
Where is Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp based?
Urbana Champaign Big Broadband Nfp is based in IL.

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 7 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $50k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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