Community Funds
The Heart of Illinois Community Foundation is a local organization with roots in the community.
Created by the Romano family in memory of A. Marie Romano Potrafka, this fund provides financial assistance to students of St. Patrick's Catholic School who meet the published criteria.
This fund provides over $100,000 annually in adult and nontraditional scholarship support. Scholarship awards range up to $2,500 per individual and may be used for tuition, course/program-related fees and books.
To promote and facilitate an interest in preservation and publishing of African-American genealogy and family histories; to provide resources and education about African-American history; to enhance self-esteem and race relations through education, cultural activities and events.
This fund was created in memory of Amy Caldwell with the contributions designated for Camp CoCo (Children's Oncology Camp Organization).
The Anne Lloyd Endowment for the Decatur Area Arts Council was created by Bob Lloyd in memory of his wife. Anne, to support the mission and activities of the Decatur Area Arts Council. Bob's original gift was matched by the ADM Challenge. Since its inception in 2003, several other donors have added to this endowment, which provides an annual distribution to the Decatur Area Arts Council.
Fund benefits Northeast Community Fund with an annual distribution.
Whether its renewing flower beds, adding murals and public art, way signing, holiday décor, bike racks and other types of beautification, donations to this fund support projects in Macon County.
Big Brothers Big Sisters created this endowed fund to provide additional dollars to support the mission of their agency.
Funding is for immediate needs and recovery stages of disaster relief - including drought, flooding, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, complex humanitarian emergencies and pandemics
Created by a generous donor, the earnings from this endowed fund provide income each year to help with the organizational needs of the Boys & Girls Club of Decatur.
Cancer Care Specialist of Illinois Charitable Fund receives memorial gifts that are used to provide educational healthcare resources to the communities they serve and healthcare-related scholarships.
Created by a generous church member and matched with ADM Challenge matching dollars, this fund provides an annual distribution into the general operations of Central Christian Church.
Created by the staff of DCC Marketing, this fund helps provide clothing, personal care items or other necessary items to local students who are homeless/transient.
This award was established to honor Bill Turner, a distinguished research chemist at A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company (currently Tate & Lyle), who was credited with the development of two starch patents. This award recognizes an outstanding graduating chemistry student at St. Teresa High School.
This endowed fund was created by donations for The Children's Museum of Illinois and an ADM Challenge Match. The earnings from this fund are distributed to The Children's Museum of Illinois and are used to support their mission and activities.
Donations to the Clokey Park Neighborhood Fund help support the work and mission of the Clokey Park Neighborhood Association.
Annual grants from this fund support public art and a commitment to visual awareness of pride in our community. The most recent grants from this fund provided a holiday ornament and 11 electrical box wraps in Decatur.
The purpose of this fund is to create an unrestricted endowment to allow The Community Foundation to make grants based on the community's needs at that time. The fund helps ensure that as our county's needs change, there will be a steady stream of income to help address those needs.
Created in 2018 by an anonymous donor, fund supports various community initiatives
The Dani Rubin Kater Memorial Fund for COVID Care supports and provides services and resources devoted to battling the coronavirus pandemic.
Annual distribution offers unrestricted support to St. Teresa High School
This endowed fund was created to benefit the Decatur Area Habitat for Humanity. Earnings from this fund may be used to support its mission and activities.
Support Decatur Day Care by donating to their designated fund.
Created by the Decatur Family YMCA, this endowment fund provides annual distributions to help support the mission and work of the YMCA.
Created by local firefighters, this fund is used to provide Christmas presents to families in hardship.
Donations to this fund help support the Decatur Public Library.
The DMCOC Endowment fund has been created to provide an additional income stream to support the mission and work of Decatur-Macon County Opportunities Corporation.
Annual distribution supports Cancer Care Specialists P
The fund supports the Decatur police departments special programs, projects and initiatives.
Earnings from the Futures Unlimited School Endowment Fund are used to help support the purpose and needs of the Futures Unlimited School.
Provides annual support for WCYA
Earnings from this endowed fund are used each year to support the mission of the Girl Scouts Council of Central Illinois.
This endowed fund was created to provide an additional funding source to support the mission and work of God's Shelter of Love.
The Governor Oglesby Mansion Charitable Fund is an endowed fund created by local donors and an ADM Challenge Match. Distributions from the fund support the Governor Oglesby Mansion in its mission and activities.
The Greenwood Cemetery Fund is to be used for projects that will restore and enhance Greenwood Cemetery.
This endowed fund was created to provide an additional funding source to support the mission and work of Heritage Behavioral Health Center.
The Equity and Inclusion Endowment Fund provides a lasting legacy of support for ongoing needs in the areas of equity and inclusion. The fund awards 5% of its total growing assets each year in grants to Macon County nonprofits o advance their work in helping us build a community of expanded opportunities where all individuals are recognized and valued.
This fund supports nonprofits in Macon, Moultrie, and Piatt County whose primary missions are to improve the emergency food system while addressing root causes of hunger by increasing food access, advancing community nutrition education and creating agricultural and community development opportunities.
The annual earnings from this fund are used to provide long-term sustainability for the HICF. This endowment serves as a financial backbone, generating a steady stream of income that supports the Foundation's ongoing operations. Contributions to the Operating Endowment ensure that the Community Foundation can continue to provide leadership, stewardship, and philanthropic support to the community for generations to come. By investing in the Operating Endowment, donors demonstrate their commitment to the enduring success and impact of the HICF.
Original donations to this fund helped create a relief sculpture by famed artist Preston Jackson depicting one of Decatur's pioneering civil rights leaders, Mr. Horace G. Livingston, Jr. The sculpture can be seen at Mueller Park in Decatur, IL.
Created in memory of beloved educator and administrator Howard Brown, the earnings from this endowment fund help support the mission and needs of the Futures Unlimited school.
The scholarship will be for private lessons by a professional teacher at an accredited school of music and will be awarded annually to a student grades 8-12 from McLean County who, by audition, shows exceptional musical talent on an instrument used in a symphony orchestra.
Created by Ellen Hearn in memory of her mother, Eliose Ivens, this fund provides grants to the Decatur Public Schools Foundation to benefit elementary school classrooms in need of supplies or other projects of the DPS Foundation.
Provides annual 5% distribution supporting agriculture/trades education.
Created by the family in memory of their parents, the Jack and Olive Langsdorf Charitable Fund provides an annual grant to St Mary's Hospital's Senior Services.
The Keri Rowden Coté Memorial Fund was created to honor the life and legacy of Keri who lost her courageous battle with cancer in 2020. She faced each day of her life with positivity and a compassion that extended to others facing similar challenges. It was her dying wish to help others who might not have the strong family support system that she was so grateful for. Her family created this term endowment fund to carry out her wishes.
Annual distributions support the Decatur Area Arts Council, Decatur Public Library, Macon County Conservation District, Scovill Children's Zoo and Historic Decatur Foundation for the Culver House.
Annual distribution supports the Lincoln Square Theater
Created by donors, disbursements from this endowed fund are to be used to support local Boy Scouting initiatives.
This fund supports inspiring readers, expanding easy book access, positively influencing literacy outcomes, and making Little Free Libraries available in high-need areas.
Annual distributions support the Decatur Area Arts Council.
This endowed fund was created by David Fathauer, in memory of his wife, Louise. Annual distributions from the fund are made to the Decatur Area Arts Council for their Program Scholarship Fund, which provides class tuition for those who cannot otherwise afford it.
Donations to this endowed fund help support the mission and activities of the Decatur and Macon County Animal Shelter Foundation. Initial gifts to this fund were matched by the ADM Challenge grant.
Fund supports community outreach in Macon County, IL.
Disbursements from this fund are used to support the mission and activities of Macon County CASA.
The Macon County Conservation Foundation created this endowed fund to receive gifts that would help support their mission and activities.
The Macon County Historical Society created this endowed agency fund to provide a steady income stream that would help support their mission and activities.
The purpose of Macon County Legacy is to encourage local people to include charitable giving in their estate plans through bequests and gifts in their wills.
This fund was created by generous donors to provide funding for Meridian High School students entering vocational and trades training programs.
Donations support the Meridian school district's agriculture education center which includes an AgTech classroom, shop and greenhouse facility.
Scholarship benefits Macon County union members in good standing or workers with a path of entry into a union. Honors Michael T. Carrigan's strong commitment to labor and community.
This fund was created generous donors and matching dollars from the Lumpkin Family Foundation to provide a permanent source of capacity-building microgrants to nonprofit organizations in Macon County.
Fund supports community outreach in Macon County, IL.
Created by Doug & Peg Schmalz and matching funds from ADM, the Mt. Zion Schools Endowment Fund provides distributions directed by the superintendent's recommendations to support the mission and activities of Mt. Zion schools.
The fund was created to receive charitable contributions for the construction/creation of Mt. Zion Fletcher Park and its ongoing upkeep and maintenance activities.
This fund was created to receive local monetary donations to the National Association of Letter Carriers annual food drive.
This fund supports grants to promote a deeper understanding and teaching of literacy, to enrich instructional programs, to provide opportunities to link literacy between the home and the school, and to lay foundations that will develop life-long readers. Annually, two book vending machines are also supported by this fund for area elementary schools.
The Noon Kiwanis Club created this fund to provide an annual scholarship to a local student.
Northeast Community Fund created this fund to provide for ongoing support of their work and mission.
Fund supports community outreach in Piatt County, IL.
This fund was created to receive contributions that will support the mission and work of the Prairie Flower Montessori School.
Created by friends and family of Rita Cornille in her memory following her courageous battle with breast cancer, this fund provides assistance in various forms to both patients and their families while navigating the difficult journey of a cancer diagnosis.
The Macon County Conservation District created this endowed agency fund to provide a steady income stream that would help support the Rock Springs Nature Center.
Annual distribution supports the United Way of Decatur
Created by Robert Schwandt, this fund provides a disbursement to the RCC Foundation for the Schwandt-Albert Professional Development Fund at Richland Community College each spring.
Created by their father, Ken Robinson, this memorial fund provides funding for local extracurricular educational needs.
Provide a gift to the She Gave - A Women's Giving Circle Endowment to provide support for women and girls in perpetuity.
Created by a generous anonymous donor, this fund provides multiple full scholarships annually to St. Patrick Catholic School, with the goal of someday providing a full scholarship for every student there.
The is fund was created by Staley Credit Union with the ultimate goal of providing scholarships.
This fund promotes and supports the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with Millikin University, and provides music education opportunities for Decatur-area students. For example, the fund provides: • Band and orchestra instruments in a lending library for use by Decatur students, elementary through high school. • Instrumental music lessons for Macon County students elementary through high school, paired with a qualified teacher through the Millikin Community Arts Academy. • Director salary and other funding for the Decatur youth orchestra. • Financial support for the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, which goes toward hiring professional musicians and rental and/or purchase of music scores.
The Grand Victoria Foundation provided a $1 million dollar grant to this endowed fund as part of the statewide CommunityWorks initiative. The annual earnings from this fund are used to help cover the administrative costs of The Foundation.
Created by the Decatur Trades and Labor Assembly, this fund was created to provide funding to add names and to support the repair and maintenance of the Workers Memorial located at 253 E. Wood Street, Decatur, IL..
This endowed fund was created by a generous gift from Doug and Peg Schmalz. In addition to their original gift, Doug and Peg also provided a $25,000 matching challenge gift if other donors would step forward. Together these funds provide a steady income stream that help to support the mission and activities of Theatre 7.
Annual distribution supports the Unitarian Universalist Church
The United Way of Decatur and Mid-Illinois created this endowed fund to receive gifts that would help support the work and the grantmaking of the United Way.
The Untold Stories program’s vision is to promote a fuller understanding of history as a contribution to conversations about racial equity and social justice. This program focuses on partnering with local historical/genealogical societies, libraries, schools, universities, museums, nonprofits, and churches to acknowledge and uncover untold history, support partnerships and build relationships, and develop understanding through education.
A fund established by local union members, We Are One Community uses collective donations from its members to make financial contributions to nonprofit organizations, like the Decatur Family YMCA and WCYA. Since their inception in 2011, We Are One Community has donated over $156,000 to local nonprofits. In addition to their financial support, We Are One Community members donate countless hours of volunteer service to several nonprofits in the community.
Created by Webster Cantrell Hall, this endowment fund provides quarterly distributions to help support the mission and work of WCH.
Annual distribution supports Meals on Wheels program
This fund was created by the Decatur World War II Memorial Committee and the contributions of numerous local donors to create and maintain the WWII Memorial located south of the Decatur Civic Center as a permanent monument to the courage and sacrifices of those who served in the military during that war.
Donations support youth participating on the YDSC swim team.
Disbursements from this fund support the mission and granting activities of Young Leaders in Action. YLIA is focused on helping young people develop lifelong values of generosity and leadership, and to build strong and caring communities.
