The Mattoon Foundation for Academic Excellence is a charitable foundation committeed to promoting, enhancing and assisting in funding projects, capital expenditures, or other creative ideas which support, encourage, and promote "academic excellence" for the students of Community Unit District No. 2.

It is not the purpose of the Mattoon Foundation for Academic Excellence to fund, either fully or partially, any project, which is in the normal course, scope or funding by Community Unit District No. 2.