· Private foundation
Donald E Fike Family Foundation
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 $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $780k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFUGE RANCH | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $80,000 |
| TONICA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $35,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $35,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS | $30,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT | $30,000 |
| VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HOPE LODGE | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANE | $30,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| PET PROJECT | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL RAILROAD HALL OF FAME | $20,000 |
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, $548k) 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Donald E Fike Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 16 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KNOX COUNTY ILLINOIS7× · 2017–2023 · $290k · revenue +43%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +99%- AUACHIEVEMENT UNLIMITED INC7× · 2017–2023 · $213k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY KNOX COUNTY ILLINOISone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HFHONOR FLIGHT NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $30k
- CBCAMP BIG SKY (990 UNDER WHY NOT NOW)one grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The mission of nicil is the empowerment of persons with disabilities. nicil will promote and practice independent living philosophy throughout all of its activities and programing. the center will provide direct & indirect services to and…
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.
Grinnell regional medical center's mission is dedication to health care for life through genuine care and compassion for the health and well-being of patients, families and the communities grinnell regional medical center is privileged to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easterseals Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is American Humane Association. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 75 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 THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KNOX COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC ↗
- Who funds RESIDENTIAL ALTERNATIVES OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Valley Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds REFUGE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds PET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KCCDD INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEARMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GALESBURG MUSEUMS INC DBA DISCOVERY DEPOT ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAILROAD HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds VNA Community Service ↗
- Who funds GALESBURG CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds Tonica Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
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: Galesburg Community Foundation · The Covia Foundation · United Way of Knox County Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Peoria Area Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Donald E Fike Family Foundation 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
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.
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