Illinois · Private foundation
Cakora Family 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.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $388k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Cakora Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $43k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $60k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $50k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $51k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pekin Park Foundation | $24,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Tazewell County Resource Centers Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Center for Prevention of Abuse | $16,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Pekin | $14,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Pekin Main Street Co Ron Harlan | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Pekin Police Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Wd Boyce Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tazewell Animal Protective Society | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Illinois Policy Institute | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pekin Park Foundation | $24,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Tazewell County Resource Centers Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Center for Prevention of Abuse | $16,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Pekin | $14,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Pekin Main Street Co Ron Harlan | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Pekin Police Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Wd Boyce Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tazewell Animal Protective Society | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Illinois Policy Institute | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Neighborhood House Association | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Side Mission of Peoria | $1,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Pathway Ministries | $1,250 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($286k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cakora Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gilmore Foundation · United Way of Pekin · Peoria Area Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cakora Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Cakora Family Charitable Trust give?
- Cakora Family Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $42,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Cakora Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Human Services (20%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Cakora Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pekin Park Foundation ($24k), Tazewell County Resource Centers Inc ($20k), The Center for Prevention of Abuse ($17k).
- Does Cakora Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cakora Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cakora Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gilmore Foundation, United Way of Pekin, Peoria Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Cakora Family Charitable Trust based?
- Cakora Family Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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