· Private foundation
Edward Whinnery 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 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 $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DECATUR | $70,500 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION | $6,750 |
| DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| PAWPRINT MINISTRIES | $4,460 |
| DECATUR FAMILY YMCA | $3,000 |
| MACON RESOURCES INC | $1,885 |
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 (FY19–21, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND6× · 2017–2022 · $44k · revenue +158%
- DCDECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP3× · 2019–2021 · $36k · revenue +11%
- MRMACON RESOURCES INC6× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- EOEMPOERMENT OPPORTUNITY CENTER (FORMERLY DMCOC)one grant, 2022 · $10k
- DCDECATUR-MACON COUNTY SENIOR PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SGSista Girls and Friends Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +46%
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.
Develop commerce in the city of decatur indiana
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
To support social services in decatur county.
Business and tourism development for decatur county, tennessee
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
Provide housing for the needy
Receive donations for dmacc.
To encourage, foster, promote and stimulate conventions and tourism in the decatur, illinois area.
Promoting specific commerical and industrial progress of community and surrounding area.
The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
To coordinate non-retail business attraction, retention, and expansion efforts in macon county, illinois.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Decatur-Macon County Opportunities Corp and the most unlike its peers is Sista Girls and Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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 NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Sista Girls and Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE - ON THE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee · The Community Foundation of Macon County · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · Andreas Foundation · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · James Millikin Trust A · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Edward Whinnery Trust 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.
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.