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Gilmore Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k13 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER PEORIA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL | $640,000 |
| UNIV OF ILL COLLEGE OF MEDICINE-PEORIA | $580,785 |
| PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM | $510,000 |
| DAF360 GIVING | $345,278 |
| ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE | $333,333 |
| PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE | $150,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| PEORIA BALLET | $60,000 |
| WTVP | $60,000 |
| BIG PICTURE INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| DREAM CENTER PEORIA | $50,000 |
| EASTER SEALS | $50,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- PRPeoria Riverfront Museum8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +105%
- OHOSF Healthcare Foundation4× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +82%
- ICILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $610k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- PPPEORIA PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $300k
- BRBLUE RIDGE FARM FBO PICKET FENCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $200k
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 peoria area chamber of commerce is a membership organization of businesses, delivering value to its members by 1) cultivating a thriving business community, 2) presenting the united voice of local business to government, 3) offering…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Foster community development, advance regional projects, and promote community vibrancy.
The community foundation of central illinois will make a sustainable philanthropic impact in our community through visible leadership in connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
As an industry leader, the pacvb promotes our region as a desired destination for visitors, contributes to the economic growth of the communities we represent, enhances quality of life for residents, and amplifies pride across our region.
To be an advocate of agriculture through leadership and education.
The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Association of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Big Picture Initiative. 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 42 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 31% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
42 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. 42 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 GREATER PEORIA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Peoria Riverfront Museum ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HILLSIDE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BIG PICTURE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ↗
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: Peoria Area Community Foundation · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Share Foundation · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Bielfeldt Foundation · Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation · Ransburg Foundation · Peoria Hospitals Mobile Medical Services D/B/A Adv Medical Trans of Central Il · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · Timothy W and Katherine a Swain Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Foundation 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 Gilmore 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.
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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