The Community Foundation of Grundy County seeks to provide vision for Grundy County in order to preserve and enhance our quality of life by providing leadership to identify important needs, using grantmaking to respond to those needs and effect change, partnering with local nonprofits to strengthen their abilities to serve citizens, and partnering with donors to receive and manage funds that will support the community for generations to come.
The Community Foundation of Grundy County uses place-based grantmaking to support local community well-being in Grundy County, with programs that reach schools, nonprofits, civic initiatives, veterans, and residents facing basic-needs challenges. Its recent grants show a foundation that moves between large unrestricted-style support for community organizations and targeted funding for specific local needs. The Morris Community YMCA received multiple awards, including a $230,680 grant in 2024 and a $68,637 grant in 2025, indicating repeat support for a central community institution. The foundation also funded St Patricks Catholic Church in Seneca with $155,033 in 2025 and Groundy-area service providers such as Grundy Area Pads in Morris with $65,110 in 2023. Beyond these larger awards, the portfolio includes school-related grants, health and human services, and community organizations across Grundy County towns such as Morris, Seneca, Minooka, Dwight, and Coal City. Its grantmaking is local in scope, and the current grant list shows all recent recipient organizations located in the United States.
Education is a defined part of the foundation’s work. In 2025, it gave $50,000 to Joliet Catholic Academy in Joliet for general well-being of the local community, and $40,411 to Minooka Ccsd 201 in Minooka for the same broad purpose. The foundation also supports health and human services. Chestnut Health Systems in Bloomington received $30,000 in 2025, while Guardian Angel Community Services in Joliet received $23,000 in 2025. Community-based basic needs work appears as well: Community Nutrition Network in Morris received $23,500 in 2025, and Beans-and-bites in Coal City received $19,116 in 2024. Civic and public-sector organizations are part of the mix too, including the Village of Seneca, which received $22,408 in 2025.
Typical awards cluster in the low five figures, with a p25 of $9,750, a median of $12,579, and a p75 of $27,262. The recent-grants list also shows a wider spread above that range, including several awards above $50,000 and a few very large commitments. Repeat recipients appear across multiple years, including Morris Community YMCA, Minooka Community High School, Grundy County Health Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Morris Community High School. The foundation operates as a community foundation and uses both open and program-specific grantmaking. Some programs accept unsolicited applications year-round, including the general nonprofit grants program and school grants.
$1.8M
$23.2M
$1.4M
$2.5M
Most grants fall between $10K and $27K, with a median of $13K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$13K
75th Percentile
$27K
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Giving is heavily concentrated in Illinois: 94% of grants go to recipients in the state. Morris appears often, alongside Seneca, Minooka, Joliet, Dwight, Coal City, Shorewood, Bloomington, and Channahon. The recipient-country distribution is entirely U.S.-based. Recent awards also reached outside Illinois to Beaverton, Oregon, and Hanover, New Hampshire, but those are exceptions within a strongly local grant pattern.
The foundation funds schools, nonprofits, civic organizations, and local service providers serving Grundy County and nearby communities. Recent grants went to Morris Community YMCA, St Patricks Catholic Church in Seneca, Grundy Area Pads in Morris, Joliet Catholic Academy, and Grundy County Health Department.
Yes, several programs accept unsolicited applications. The general CFGC Grants Program accepts applications year-round and reviews them monthly, and Grants to Schools and Peg Davis Seneca Civic Fund also accept unsolicited applications.
The typical award sits in the low five figures. The reported distribution is p25 of $9,750, median of $12,579, and p75 of $27,262, although some recent awards were much larger.
The grantmaking is strongly local. 94% of grants go to recipients in Illinois, and the foundation describes its geographic scope of giving as local. Recent grants were concentrated in towns such as Morris, Seneca, Minooka, Joliet, and Dwight.
Yes. Morris Community YMCA appears multiple times across 2023, 2024, and 2025, and Minooka Community High School, Grundy County Health Department, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also received more than one recent award.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MORRIS HOSPITAL AUXILIARY & FOUNDATION | MORRIS, IL | $641,071 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| GRUNDY EUNOIA WELLNESS CENTER | MAZON, IL | $269,945 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | BEAVERTON, OR | $202,030 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MORRIS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | MORRIS, IL | $116,151 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| CITY OF MORRIS | MORRIS, IL | $110,500 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MORRIS HOSPITAL YMCA | MORRIS, IL | $77,625 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| VILLAGE OF MINOOKA | MINOOKA, IL | $43,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH | MORRIS, IL | $35,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MINOOKA CHSD 111 | MINOOKA, IL | $28,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND | SHOREWOOD, IL | $22,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| UNITED WAY OF GRUNDY COUNTY | MORRIS, IL | $15,809 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | NORMAL, IL | $14,500 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| SPECIAL CONNECTIONS OF GRUNDY COUNTY | MORRIS, IL | $13,270 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| BEANS-AND-BITES | COAL CITY, IL | $13,050 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| WE CARE OF GC | MORRIS, IL | $11,427 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK | MORRIS, IL | $11,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | EVANSVILLE, IN | $10,500 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| RECLAIM3D INC | CHANNAHON, IL | $10,200 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| SENECA AREA FOOD BANK | SENECA, IL | $10,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | MEMPHIS, TN | $10,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | SENECA, IL | $10,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| VILLAGE OF SENECA | SENECA, IL | $10,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES | JOLIET, IL | $10,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | MACOMB, IL | $10,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| GRUNDY AREA PADS | MORRIS, IL | $9,786 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES | NEWARK, IL | $9,700 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| ILLINOIS VALLEY INDUSTRIES | MORRIS, IL | $8,686 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| SARATOGA SCHOOL DISTRICT #60C | MORRIS, IL | $8,500 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL | MORRIS, IL | $8,315 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MORRIS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 101 | MORRIS, IL | $8,310 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MORRIS | MORRIS, IL | $8,296 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| GARDNER SOUTH WILMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | GARDNER, IL | $6,000 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| BENS WAY FORWARD | MORRIS, IL | $5,650 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| GRUNDY AREA VOCATIONAL CENTER (GAVC) | MORRIS, IL | $5,517 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| JASON CLEARWATER FUND NFP | MINOOKA, IL | $5,500 | 2026 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| ST PATRICKS CATHOLIC CHURCH | SENECA, IL | $155,033 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MORRIS COMMUNITY YMCA | MORRIS, IL | $68,637 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | BEAVERTON, OR | $55,530 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| JOLIET CATHOLIC ACADEMY | JOLIET, IL | $50,000 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MINOOKA CCSD 201 | MINOOKA, IL | $40,411 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND | SHOREWOOD, IL | $36,000 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| CHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS | BLOOMINGTON, IL | $30,000 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MINOOKA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | CHANNAHON, IL | $28,000 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK | MORRIS, IL | $23,500 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | CHAMPAIGN, IL | $23,386 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES | JOLIET, IL | $23,000 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| VILLAGE OF SENECA | SENECA, IL | $22,408 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| WE CARE OF GC | MORRIS, IL | $14,250 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| MORRIS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 101 | MORRIS, IL | $13,500 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
| CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES | NEWARK, IL | $12,600 | 2025 | GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY |
MORRIS HOSPITAL AUXILIARY & FOUNDATION
$641,071GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
GRUNDY EUNOIA WELLNESS CENTER
$269,945GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
$202,030GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MORRIS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY
$116,151GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
CITY OF MORRIS
$110,500GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
Current and upcoming funding from Community Foundation of Grundy County that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Organizations serving the MVK communities and able to provide nonprofit status or comparable documentation, project budget, financial statements, and board list.
Deadline: No specific deadline shown on the application page; the form is presented as a step-based online application (appears to accept submissions when funds are available).
GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
VILLAGE OF MINOOKA
$43,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH
$35,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MINOOKA CHSD 111
$28,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND
$22,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
UNITED WAY OF GRUNDY COUNTY
$15,809GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
$14,500GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
SPECIAL CONNECTIONS OF GRUNDY COUNTY
$13,270GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
BEANS-AND-BITES
$13,050GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
WE CARE OF GC
$11,427GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK
$11,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
RECLAIM3D INC
$10,200GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
SENECA AREA FOOD BANK
$10,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
$10,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
VILLAGE OF SENECA
$10,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES
$10,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
GRUNDY AREA PADS
$9,786GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES
$9,700GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
ILLINOIS VALLEY INDUSTRIES
$8,686GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
SARATOGA SCHOOL DISTRICT #60C
$8,500GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL
$8,315GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MORRIS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 101
$8,310GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MORRIS
$8,296GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
GARDNER SOUTH WILMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
$6,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
BENS WAY FORWARD
$5,650GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
GRUNDY AREA VOCATIONAL CENTER (GAVC)
$5,517GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
JASON CLEARWATER FUND NFP
$5,500GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
ST PATRICKS CATHOLIC CHURCH
$155,033GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
$55,530GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
JOLIET CATHOLIC ACADEMY
$50,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MINOOKA CCSD 201
$40,411GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND
$36,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MINOOKA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
$28,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK
$23,500GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
$23,386GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES
$23,000GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
VILLAGE OF SENECA
$22,408GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
WE CARE OF GC
$14,250GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
MORRIS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 101
$13,500GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES
$12,600GENERAL WELL BEING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
Who can apply: Nonprofits serving or wanting to serve Grundy County are welcome to submit applications at any time of year. CFGC unrestricted grants are generally not awarded to individuals, scholarships, religious denominations, disease-specific organizations, operational budgets, or extracurricular trips/travel.
Deadline: Applications due by the 3rd Monday of each month; committee review on the 1st Thursday; board approval on the 3rd Thursday for grants over $1,000.
Who can apply: Schools serving Grundy County may apply. Applicants must provide project budget, department budget for the request, and school board member list.
Deadline: Not specified; applications appear to be accepted when funds are available.
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