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William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
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 2024.

Education$70kReligion$34kArts & Culture$13kCivil Rights$11kCrime & Legal$10kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$8kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
McKinley Presbyterian Church$18,000
Champaign Public Library Foundation$6,500
University of Illinois - Illinois Annual$5,000
PACA of Champaign County$250
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%Presbyterian Historical Society: $5k → 22%Wayne County Public Library Foundat: $10k → 18%University of Mount Olive Inc: $10k → 20%McKinley Presbyterian Church: $18k → 19%Presbyterian Outlook Foundation Inc: $1k → 22%Presbyterian Historical Society: $3k → 22%Wayne County Public Library Inc: $1k → 18%University of Mount Olive Inc: $10k → 20%PACA of Champaign County: $10k → 19%Presbyterian Outlook Found Inc: $1k → 22%North Carolina Foundation For Chris: $2k → 20%McKinley Presbyterian Church: $10k → 19%North Carolina Foundation For Chris: $2k → 20%Champaign Public Library Foundation: $7k → 19%Courage Connection: $5k → 19%University of Illinois - Illinois Annual: $5k → 19%Champaign County Historical Museum: $3k → 19%Family Services of Champaign County: $2k → 19%Champaign Public Library Foundation: $2k → 19%Champaign Public Library Foundation: $2k → 19%Champaign Public Library Foundation: $2k → 19%The Art Theater: $1k → 19%Faith in Place: $1k → 19%Champaign County Historical Museum: $1k → 19%Family Services of Champaign County: $1k → 19%Family Services: $800 → 19%Family Service of Champaign County: $500 → 19%Don Moyer Boys Girls Club: $500 → 19%Don Moyer Boys Girls Club: $500 → 19%Orpheum Children's Science Museum: $500 → 19%Children's Science Museum: $500 → 19%PACA of Champaign County: $500 → 19%Family Service of Champaign County: $500 → 19%Eastern Illinois Foodbank: $3k → 19%Solo Gratia Farm: $2k → 19%Solo Gratia Farm: $2k → 19%Eastern Illinois Foodbank: $1k → 19%Eastern Illinois Foodbank: $500 → 19%Eastern Illinois Foodbank: $500 → 19%University of Illinois Foundation: $10k → 19%University of Illinois Foundation: $10k → 19%Champaign County Casa Inc: $5k → 19%Champaign County Casa Inc: $5k → 19%Discover Self Community: $2k → 19%Crisis Nursery: $1k → 19%Development Service Center of Champ: $1k → 19%Crisis Nursery: $1k → 19%Development Services Center: $500 → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 17 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$145k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionReligionArts & CultureCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +74%
  • CP
    CHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +406%
  • WC
    WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +686%

Funded once

  • CC
    COURAGE CONNECTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • FI
    FAITH IN PLACEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +366%
  • DS
    Development Service Center of Champ
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Children's Museum of Illinois

The operation of a children's museum.

Arts & Culture
3
Chicago Community Bond Fund

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

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.

Health
5
United Way of Champaign County

United way of champaign county brings people and resources together to create positive change and lasting impact for our community.

Philanthropy
6
Faith in Place Action Fund

People of faith and conscience promotting political action for environmental justice in illinois.

Environment
7
Countryside School of Champaign-Urbana Inc

To provide joy in learning with excellence in education.

Education
8
Chicago Maritime Museum

Operation of a nautical history museum.

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9
Visit Champaign County Foundation

To develop philanthropic support for the champaign county convention and visitor's bureau.

Philanthropy
10
Oswego Christian Foundation

Establishing, promoting, and supporting christian education ministries in the community of oswego, illinois and its surrounding communities.

Human Services
11
Cpa Endowment Fund of Illinois

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.

Education
12
Citizens Utility Board

To promote the health, welfare and prosperity of all the citizens of illinois by ensuring effective and democratic representation of utility consumers.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champaign Public Library Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

McKinley Presbyterian Church: $28,000 · OtherMcKinley Presbyterian ChurchPACA of Champaign County: $10,750 · OtherPACA of Champaign CountyPRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE: $8,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY THEUniversity of Illinois - Illinois Annual: $5,000 · OtherUniversity of Illinois - Illinois AnnualFAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $4,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTYCRISIS NURSERY: $3,000 · Other+9 more: $10,300 · Other+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INCUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationCHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationCHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EducationWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCCHAMPAIGN COUNTY CASA INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSOLA GRATIA FARM: $3,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION FOR CHRISTIAN MINIST: $3,000 · ReligionPRESBYTERIAN OUTLOOK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · ReligionFAITH IN PLACE: $1,000 · ReligionCOURAGE CONNECTION: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterChampaign County Historical Museum: $3,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$69,050Education$62,000Civil Rights$10,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Religion$6,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Arts & Culture$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCHAMPAIGN COUNTY CASA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE CONNECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChampaign County Historical Museum: $3,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION FOR CHRISTIAN MINIST: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOLA GRATIA FARM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMINDFUL TEACHER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN OUTLOOK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH IN PLACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORPHEUM CHILDREN'S SCIENCE MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

United Way of Champai…Wgrc IncThe Meyer Charitable …Community Foundation …Commerce Bancshares F…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Champaign CountyIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 27 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-PF 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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