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Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Support Services | $10,095 |
| Ottawa YMCA | $10,000 |
| YMCA of Berwyn Cicero Inc | $7,500 |
| Prairie State Legal Services | $7,500 |
| Horizon House of Illinois Valley | $7,000 |
| LaSalle County CASA | $6,500 |
| PILLARS Community Health | $6,500 |
| Illinois Valley Food Pantry | $6,000 |
| Community Food Basket | $6,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity LaSalle Bureau Putnam | $6,000 |
| Streator Unlimited Inc | $6,000 |
| Streatorland Community Food Pantry | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| IV Public Action to Deliver Shelter | $5,000 |
| Youth Crossroads Inc | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +55%
- YOYMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS8× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +241%
- HHHORIZON HOUSE OF ILLINOIS VALLEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- ILILLINOIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +21%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONSone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +21%
- SFSTREATOR FAMILY YMCAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +88%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Provide emergency food and shelter
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Social services for the elderly of iroquois county. to provide basic services including homemaker, mobile meals, telecare, van trips and outreach.
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lighted Way Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE OF ILLINOIS VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STREATOR UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ILLINOIS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds A SERVANTS HEART ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds UNDER HIS WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BERWYN-CICERO INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTED WAY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds STREATORLAND COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds MENDOTA AREA CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Covia Foundation · United Way of Illinois Valley · United Way of Eastern la Salle County Inc · Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging · The Chicago Community Trust · Community Memorial Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Dupage Community Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources Inc · AbbVie Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.