Illinois Prairie Community Foundation
Bloomington, IL · EIN 37-1377415. Reported 312 grants totalling $7,706,105 to 162 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
162organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$7,706,105granted, 2020-2024
49%of grantees funded again the next year
19%of dollars to its largest recipient
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Illinois Prairie Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 162 distinct organizations, with 19% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 49% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $17,870; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $1,500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pasture | Hudson, IL | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Samaritans Purse | Boone, NC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Illinois State University Foundation | Normal, IL | $492,771 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| City of Bloomington | Bloomington, IL | $472,452 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Bloomington, IL | $175,449 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ram Global | Carbondale, CO | $155,244 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | Gridley, IL | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Heartland Community College Foundation | Normal, IL | $108,874 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Moses Montefiore Congregation | Bloomington, IL | $98,630 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Bloomington- Normal | Bloomington, IL | $92,579 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Health Care Clinic Inc | Normal, IL | $91,318 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cornerstone Christian Academy of Mclean County Inc | Bloomington, IL | $88,581 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Malaria Partners International | Seattle, WA | $88,419 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Wesley United Methodist Church | Bloomington, IL | $87,458 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp Inc | Normal, IL | $80,112 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Apostolic Christian Church of Roanoke Il | Roanoke, IL | $79,763 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $78,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International | Evanston, IL | $68,650 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baby Fold | Normal, IL | $65,107 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Home & Aid Society of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $64,275 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of the Cumberlands Inc | Williamsburg, KY | $63,775 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army National Corp | Alexandria, VA | $63,773 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends Forever | Durham, NH | $62,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mid Central Community Action | Bloomington, IL | $61,283 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Home Sweet Home Ministries | Bloomington, IL | $60,146 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Atlanta Betterment Fund Nfp | Atlanta, IL | $57,393 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| YWCA of Mclean County | Bloomington, IL | $54,048 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Eureka College | Eureka, IL | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Illinois Symphony Orchestra Inc | Springfield, IL | $50,639 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tse Ee Gai House of Joy | Kayenta, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Enviromental Education Association of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $49,972 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Miller Park Zoological Society | Bloomington, IL | $49,408 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Ecology Action Center | Normal, IL | $45,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Board of Trustees of Illinois State University | Normal, IL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nursetrust Inc | Lexington, KY | $43,715 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Mclean County | Bloomington, IL | $43,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Partners for Community | Bloomington, IL | $42,456 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $41,488 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Mclean County Inc | Bloomington, IL | $40,787 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gibson Area Hospital Foundation | Gibson City, IL | $35,938 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | Des Plaines, IL | $35,938 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church | Bloomington, IL | $35,938 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Johns Lutheran Church Foundation | Bloomington, IL | $35,938 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aspen Rotary Club Foundation Inc | Aspen, CO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Hoffman Estates, IL | $33,100 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Humane Society of Central Illinois | Normal, IL | $32,873 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Africa University Inc | Nashville, TN | $32,690 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Normal 1ST United Methodist | Normal, IL | $32,300 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Lexington Cusd 7 | Lexington, IL | $32,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,811 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| If - Endow Atlanta Fund (endo) | Bloomington, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Braunfels Christian Ministries | New Braunfels, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association | Boston, MA | $28,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $27,550 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Shriners Hospital Mary Roy Tr 02-29926 | Po Box Chicago, IL | $27,166 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Harvest Call | Eureka, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dreams Are Possible | Bloomington, IL | $23,756 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $23,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $23,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catalytic Communities | Silver Spring, MD | $23,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Eastview Christian Church | Normal, IL | $23,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mclean County Historical Society | Bloomington, IL | $22,875 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Home Sweet Home Ministries Inc | Bloomington, IL | $22,322 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bloomington-Normal YMCA Charitable Foundation Nfp | Bloomington, IL | $22,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Health Care Clinic | Normal, IL | $21,958 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Im in-Character Development & Leadership Training | Atlanta, GA | $20,363 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Catholic High School | Bloomington, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Franklin Park Foundation | Bloomington, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| House of Life and Hope Inc | Nogales, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Prairie Fire Theatre | Normal, IL | $19,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership | Atlanta, IL | $18,895 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Book of Mclean County | Bloomington, IL | $18,247 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girl Scouts of Central Illinois Inc | Springfield, IL | $18,142 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Town of Normal Childrens Discovery Museum Foundation | Normal, IL | $17,950 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Horizon House Foundation | Peru, IL | $17,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Charitable Adult Rides & Services Inc | San Diego, CA | $16,825 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army of Mclean County | Bloomington, IL | $16,522 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Apostolic Christian Home of Roanoke Illinois Inc | Roanoke, IL | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parklands Foundation | Normal, IL | $14,508 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Epiphany Catholic School | Normal, IL | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Normal First United Methodist Church | Normal, IL | $14,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Normal Rotary Foundation | Normal, IL | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Carle Bromenn Medical Center | Urbana, IL | $13,913 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Safe House Education Fund | Fairfax, CA | $13,474 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Phoenix Rotary Club Charities Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $13,340 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Milestones Early Learning Center & Preschool | Bloomington, IL | $13,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 1388 Genfed Financial Credit Union | Akron, OH | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Bloomington Revitalization Project Corporation | Bloomington, IL | $11,527 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Heartland Head Start Inc | Bloomington, IL | $11,308 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $11,100 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Braille Press Inc | Boston, MA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carlock Public Library | Carlock, IL | $10,958 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sugar Grove Foundation | Mclean, IL | $10,958 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of Isu | Normal, IL | $10,683 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mclean County Unit School District No 5 Educational Foundation | Normal, IL | $10,481 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lifelong Access | Normal, IL | $10,150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Champaign, IL | $10,066 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Autism Collective | Peoria, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Action Partnership of Central Il | Lincoln, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community House | Hinsdale, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dekalb County Edc | Dekalb, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dove Inc | Decatur, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospital Albert Schweitzer | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| If - Ram Global | Bloomington, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| If - Triopia Scholarship Fund (trio) | Arenzville, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc | Bloomington, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lamu Center of Preventative Health | Bloomington, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Linn County 3RD Fire District Foundation Inc | Central City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midwest Food Bank East Africa | Morton, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Beginnings Inc | Lewiston, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Truth Academy | El Paso, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Illinois Art Station | Normal, IL | $9,585 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $9,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospita | Cincinnati, OH | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Elpaso Gridley High School | Elpaso, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parkland College | Champaign, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Immigration Project Inc | Normal, IL | $7,806 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bradley University | Peoria, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District | Iowa City, IA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Chicago, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Star Adult Literacy | Bloomington, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Logan County | Lincoln, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Waubonsee Community College Foundation | Sugar Grove, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vault Community Center | Clinton, IL | $6,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Hope Ministries Inc | Bloomington, IL | $6,775 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| John Wesley Powell Audubon Society | Normal, IL | $6,575 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eureka College | Eureka, IL | $6,418 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bloomington Public Library Foundation | Bloomington, IL | $6,264 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Livingston County Commission on Children and Youth | Pontiac, IL | $6,212 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Western Avenue Community Center | Bloomington, IL | $6,025 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Belmont University | Nashville, TN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calvin University | Grand Rapids, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Book | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida Polytechnic University Foundation Inc | Lakeland, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Promise Council | Bloomington, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Methodist University | Dallas, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heifer Project International | Little Rock, AR | $5,883 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Music Connections Foundation Inc | Bloomington, IL | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Atlanta Betterment | Atlanta, IL | $5,699 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Pontiac | Pontiac, IL | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oasis Community Outreach | Bloomington, IL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heartland Theatre Company | Bloomington, IL | $5,423 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eastern Illinois Foodbank | Urbana, IL | $5,403 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Illinois Valley Community College Foundation | Oglesby, IL | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Winnebago Community Historical Society | Winnebago, IL | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regional Alternative School | Bloomington, IL | $5,009 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dove Inc | Deactur, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fellowship of Christian Farmers International | Kalamazoo, MI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness Inc | Tarpon Spgs, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| If - Back to School Alliance (back) | Bloomington, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| If - Mother Goose Fund (moth) | Bloomington, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lincoln-Logan Food Pantry | Lincoln, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center | Champaign, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mclean County Pony Baseball Inc | Bloomington, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Morton Economic Development C | Morton, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ruth Eckerd Hall Inc | Clearwater, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Music Shoppe Inc | Normal, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Upavim Community Development Foundation | Temple, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
67 of 162 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 90 of 162 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 50 | $927,452 | $6,000 |
| 2021 | 60 | $973,220 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 70 | $2,456,376 | $10,398 |
| 2023 | 66 | $1,268,835 | $10,846 |
| 2024 | 66 | $2,080,222 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
73% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Illinois Prairie Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 915 E Washington Street 2, Bloomington, IL, 61701.
EIN 37-1377415 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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