· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MILLER SENIOR CENTER | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| PEKIN UNION MISSION | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PEKIN | $2,500 |
| ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE | $2,000 |
| PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TAZEWELL COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE | $1,500 |
| TAZEWELL COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY | $1,000 |
| GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| PEKIN OUTREACH CENTER | $1,000 |
| PEKIN MAIN STREET | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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, 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
Backed again, and grew
- TCTAZEWELL COUNTY RESOURCE CENTERS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +98%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE7× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +39%
- PMPATHWAY MINISTRIES3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TCTAZEWELL CTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +21%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of both the national united way and the united way of pekin is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
Community action agency dedicated to providing resources, guidance, and assistance to individuals and families navigating their way through economic hardships
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
The mission of piven theatre workshop as it has evolved over 46 years is to pursue the three branches of the organization: the training center for children, training centers for adults, and mentorship that annually serves 1,000 students…
Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.
Own and operate assisted living facility
To feed and provide vet care for animals in need.
Preserve the history of central illinos and to promote this history through education
Employment and training services
The peoria area chamber of commerce is a membership organization of businesses, delivering value to its members by 1) cultivating a thriving business community, 2) presenting the united voice of local business to government, 3) offering…
Provides Public Library and information services to the Peacham community.
Operates a care center and provides services to the elderly including home delivered meals, congregate meals, companion services, personal care, patient medical aid, and group activities.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAZEWELL COUNTY RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PEKIN ↗
- Who funds PEKIN MAIN STREET CO RON HARLAN ↗
- Who funds WD BOYCE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cakora Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cakora Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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