· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $35,000 |
| TONICA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $35,000 |
| VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC | $30,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HOPE LODGE | $30,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANE | $30,000 |
| ILLINOIS VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE | $25,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PET PROJECT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Donald E Fike Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 59%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL - FORE THE KIDSone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 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…
How this is measured
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEARMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 LOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Tonica Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald E Fike Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald E Fike Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
How this is measured
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