· Private foundation
Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF | $20,000 |
| EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| CASA OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS | $10,000 |
| SE ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FNDN | $9,000 |
| EFFINGHAM CITY-COUNTY CMTE | $5,000 |
| ENDURING FREEDOM MINITRIES INC | $5,000 |
| LITTLE HEARTS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | $5,000 |
| BALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| MID-ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES | $4,500 |
| STRATEGIC TRAINING & RESTORATON | $3,500 |
| HOSPITAL SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS FDTN | $3,500 |
| CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY | $2,500 |
| JOLENE AREND GIVING FUND | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -60% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CSCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +76%
- ECEFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +84%
- COCASA of Effingham County7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- FFISHone grant, 2019 · $15k
- HSHSHS ST ANTHONY'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
- VOVILLAGE OF DIETERICH ILLINOISone grant, 2023 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
None
To provide quality child care
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
Providing partner for illinois department of human services for afterschool programming
Entity provides quality social services and compassionate care to abused, neglected, and dependent children, and improves the quality of life through adoption counseling, and intact family services.
To protect children, preserve families, and provide need based services either directly or through referral to strengthen and support families.
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
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…
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Effingham County Fish Human Services and the most unlike its peers is Ballard Family Nature Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 32. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CASA of Effingham County ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM CITY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE NFP ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc · Midland States Bank Foundation · Niebrugge Cares Foundation · Jx Gives Back Family Foundation Inc · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.