Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Dieken Family Foundation Inc

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.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$181kArts & Culture$135kEducation$114kPhilanthropy$47kHuman Services$46kEmployment$39kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
STREATOR FOOD PANTRY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
STREATOR FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION$7,500
THE STREATOR RAMP BUILDERS$7,000
STREATOR TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL$5,795
Individual grant recipient$5,156
ENGLE LANE THEATRE$4,964
POCO A POCO$3,675
STREATOR HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$3,000
ILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 15%STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 15%STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 15%STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 15%STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$444k · 18 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
30

Total granted

$444k
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-2%

Still filing today

22%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • SC
    STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +73%
  • SR
    STARVED ROCK COUNTRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +133%
  • SR
    STREATOR RAMP BUILDERS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF STREATOR-SPLASH PARK
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • EO
    EDUCATORS OF BEAUTY PERU
    one grant, 2024 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Streatorland Historical Society Inc

To collect, preserve and exhibit artistic and historical objects which are peculiar to the history and legend of the streator, illinois area.

Arts & Culture
2
Streator Unlimited Foundation Inc

To provide beneficial support and aid to disabled citizens.

3
Springfield Theatre Centre

To bring our community and the performing arts together. We strive to provide central Illinois with quality theatre, learning opportunities, and a creative outlet for live theatrical arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Stabat Mater Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture
6
Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture
7
River District

To Promote Civic Pride

Community Improvement
8
Rock Ridge High School Drama Boosters

The mission of the RRHS Drama Boosters is to serve as a non-profit volunteer organization providing support and services to promote the continued development and growth of the Rock Ridge High School Theatre Program.

9
Chicago Harp Quartet
10
Arts Connection of Central Illinois

Arts Connection of Central Illinois has been established for the citizens of Effingham County and beyond to showcase arts and entertainment, to encourage interaction with and appreciation of live performance, to endorse the educational…

Human Services
11
Streator Unlimited Inc

Streator Unlimited, Inc. is committed to enriching the lives of adults with disabilities by teaching skills that will enable them to reach their fullest potential, live as independently as possible, and become integrated into the community.

Human Services
12
Edwardsville Opera Festival

Our mission is to develop an arts organization for the benefit of Edwardsville, IL and the St. Louis Metro-East community with the goals of providing musical excellence, educational outreach, community development, an artistic platform and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Streator Child Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Omniarts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF STREATOR-SPLASH PARK — $100,000 · OtherCITY OF STREATOR-SPLASH PARKIndividual grant recipient — $72,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTREATOR TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL — $46,394 · OtherSTREATOR TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOLILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $42,500 · OtherILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGESTREATOR FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION — $37,500 · OtherSTREATOR FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONIndividual grant recipient — $36,683 · OtherIndividual grant recipientENGLE LANE THEATRE — $29,266 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherPOCO A POCO — $23,465 · Other+33 more — $152,244 · Other+33 moreSTARVED ROCK COUNTRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $26,000 · PhilanthropySTREATOR RAMP BUILDERS — $20,700 · PhilanthropySTREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PLAYERS OF STREATOR INC — $12,320 · Arts & CultureNorth Central IL ArtWorks Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL — $8,000 · ReligionERIC ELDER MINISTRIES — $2,000 · ReligionHOOAH DEER HUNT FOR HEROES NFP — $500 · Health
Other$565,052Philanthropy$46,700Human Services$45,000Arts & Culture$17,320Religion$10,000Health$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $45,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSTARVED ROCK COUNTRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSTREATOR RAMP BUILDERS — $20,700 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY PLAYERS OF STREATOR INC — $12,320 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE STREATOR GRADE SCHOOL BAND - AIDS — $10,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetOMNIARTS — $10,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetNorth Central IL ArtWorks Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetERIC ELDER MINISTRIES — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTREATOR AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOOAH DEER HUNT FOR HEROES NFP — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 STREATOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
  • Who funds STARVED ROCK COUNTRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STREATOR RAMP BUILDERS
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PLAYERS OF STREATOR INC
  • Who funds THE STREATOR GRADE SCHOOL BAND - AIDS
  • Who funds OMNIARTS
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL
  • Who funds North Central IL ArtWorks Inc
  • Who funds ERIC ELDER MINISTRIES

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.

The Covia FoundationOH15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Covia Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Dieken Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dieken Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dieken Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph