· 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 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 $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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 22 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward Whinnery Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward Whinnery Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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