Illinois · Nonprofit
OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION
OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,436 to it, the largest being ELLA G MCKEE FOUNDATION FNB COMMUNITY BANK TRUSTEE ($194,326). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $480k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $375k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Old Capitol Foundation does
Mission
Dedicated to the furtherance of charitable and educational opportunities within the local vandalia/fayette county area, and those areas immediately adjacent thereto. We are the Old Capitol Foundation. A community foundation whose purpose is to bring donors and local needs together. Ocf makes grants in virtually every field of interest: art and culture, community development, education, human service and youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Granting of educational scholarships, medical grants and grants to educational facilities and other charities.
$433,976 spentof which $433,976 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $433,976.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $9.9M to $8.7M (−13%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
7% of OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $17k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $142k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Old Capitol Foundation); $18k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Joe & Elwena Scarpaci Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 88% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
24%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION?
- OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,436 to it, the largest being ELLA G MCKEE FOUNDATION FNB COMMUNITY BANK TRUSTEE ($194,326). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $375,436 in grants to OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION?
- ELLA G MCKEE FOUNDATION FNB COMMUNITY BANK TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $194,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLD CAPITOL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing