Foundation News
Posted December 4, 2025
After listening to grantee concerns in early 2025, The Lumpkin Family Foundation (LFF) formed the Resilience Fund as a temporary grantmaking program created to support recent nonprofit grantee organizations that faced urgent, destabilizing challenges resulting from federal policy changes and the abrupt loss of public funding—especially as they impacted rural and marginalized communities.
Grantee News
Posted November 20, 2025
In 2020, The Lumpkin Family Foundation partnered with the Savanna Institute and Canopy Farm Management on a ten-year grant to establish and maintain 250 acres of agroforestry in Champaign and Piatt Counties.
Grantee News
Posted November 3, 2025
The Illinois Stewardship Alliance (ISA) is now accepting proposals for 2026 Soil Health Week, March 3-9th.
Foundation News
Posted October 9, 2025
The Lumpkin Family Foundation’s Nature-Based Climate Action Program (NBCA), recently awarded 13 new and responsive grants in the East Central Illinois area, totaling $361,000.
Community News, Grantee News
Posted September 16, 2025
The Heart of Illinois Community Foundation (HICF) in Decatur, IL unveiled the very first sign on the new Macon County African American Heritage Trail on Wednesday, September 23 at the new Ellsworth Dansby Jr.
Foundation News
Posted August 27, 2025
The Lumpkin Family Foundation’s newest grant program, Wellness Grants for Leaders + Frontline Workers, recently awarded 8 wellness grants and 4 sabbatical leave grants, totaling $59,400.
