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WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION

WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,970 to it, the largest being URBANA-CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER ($72,910). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$83k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$78k
Net assets
$-7007
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Wayne McClain Pipeline Foundation does

Mission

Family and Youth Education Services

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Senior citizens are engaged as mentors and tutors, providing one-on-one support to students identified as as-risk under the direction of classroom teachers.

    $88,626 spentof which $82,953 as grants
    92% of program spending
  2. Read and Rebound program targets after school literacy and athletic program for elementary and middle school students who are one or more grade levels behind in reading.

    $7,501 spent
    8% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,127.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $26 → $5k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE 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

WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

94% of WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
PA

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

’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION?
WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,970 to it, the largest being URBANA-CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER ($72,910). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $77,970 in grants to WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE FOUNDATION?
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $72,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAYNE MCCLAIN PIPELINE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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