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Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

The Organizations mission is to foster the creation and distribution of media and art that emphasizes underrepresented voices and perspectives, and to promote empowerment and expression through media and arts education.

$10k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$10k100%
FY20234$70k0%
FY20227$341kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$193kYouth Development$126kCivil Rights$55kCommunity Improvement$47k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Well Experience Inc$77,9261n/a
Wayne McClain Pipeline Foundation$72,9101n/a
Trauma Survivors Heal 2$63,4002n/a
We Love The Kids Foundation$52,9262n/a
Bipoc for Better Birth Inc$51,7182n/a
Business Elevator$46,7061n/a
Radical Thought Collective$44,8902n/a
National Lawyers Guild - Chicago Foundation$10,00016%

Compare Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center with peer funders

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Find your warmest path to Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center 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 Independent Media Center

How much does Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center give?
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Youth Development (30%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Well Experience Inc ($78k), Wayne McClain Pipeline Foundation ($73k), Trauma Survivors Heal 2 ($63k).
Does Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center based?
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center 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 8 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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