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Southern Illinois Community Foundation

Southern Illinois Community Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,702 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($550,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$3.7M
6/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Southern Illinois Community Foundation does

Mission

To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.

    $1,637,933 spent$1,091,812 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,637,933.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($433k) Expenses 100 ($226k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 428 ($1.9M) Expenses 603 ($1.4M) Net assets 221 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 410 ($1.8M) Expenses 605 ($1.4M) Net assets 267 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 279 ($1.2M) Expenses 523 ($1.2M) Net assets 222 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 249 ($1.1M) Expenses 437 ($987k) Net assets 249 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 485 ($2.1M) Expenses 793 ($1.8M) Net assets 287 ($3.7M)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (485)Expenses (793)Net assets (287)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $3.6M (+21%).

$1.4M
$3.0M
$3.6M
$3.1M
$3.4M
$4.0M
201720202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of Southern Illinois Community Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$207k
’17
$490k
’20
$410k
’21
$24k
’22
$90k
’23
$307k
’24
2.5
months of
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.

Chief executive

Byram Fager

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201720202021202220232024
Listed1388888
Joined··+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $59k → $45k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Southern Illinois Community 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

Southern Illinois Community Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 Southern Illinois Community Foundation.

40%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 88% · 2021 71% · 2022 45% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

22% of Southern Illinois Community Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

88% of Southern Illinois Community Foundation's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
WI
KY
DE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $588k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Southern Illinois Community Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Southern Illinois Community Foundation receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $589k on record.

Federal$589k
grants $589kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Delta Regional Authority$450k
  • Department of Agriculture$139k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Southern Illinois Community 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southern Illinois Community 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 Southern Illinois Community Foundation?
Southern Illinois Community Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,702 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($550,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Southern Illinois Community Foundation have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,366,702 in grants to Southern Illinois Community Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Southern Illinois Community Foundation?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Southern Illinois Community 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing