· Private foundation
William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| McKinley Presbyterian Church | $18,000 |
| Champaign Public Library Foundation | $6,500 |
| University of Illinois - Illinois Annual | $5,000 |
| PACA of Champaign County | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +43% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
University of Illinois Foundation2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +74%- CPCHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +406%
- WCWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +686%
Funded once
- CCCOURAGE CONNECTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
- TAThe Art Theaterone grant, 2017 · $1k
- DSDevelopment Service Center of Champone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
The operation of a children's museum.
Ccbf pays bond for people charged with crimes in cook county, illinois. through a revolving fund, ccbf supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
United way of champaign county brings people and resources together to create positive change and lasting impact for our community.
People of faith and conscience promotting political action for environmental justice in illinois.
To provide joy in learning with excellence in education.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
To develop philanthropic support for the champaign county convention and visitor's bureau.
Establishing, promoting, and supporting christian education ministries in the community of oswego, illinois and its surrounding communities.
To ensure a strong, talented, and diverse cpa profession in illinois by encouraging individuals to choose accounting as a career choice and become a cpa, and by supporting students, particularly those in need, in achieving the cpa.
To promote the health, welfare and prosperity of all the citizens of illinois by ensuring effective and democratic representation of utility consumers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champaign Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Champaign County Historical Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Champaign County Historical Museum ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION FOR CHRISTIAN MINIST ↗
- Who funds SOLA GRATIA FARM ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL TEACHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN OUTLOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PLACE ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM CHILDREN'S SCIENCE MUSEUM INC ↗
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: United Way of Champaign County · Wgrc Inc · The Meyer Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation 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.