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Gilmore Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$640k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.3MPublic Benefit$3.1MArts & Culture$3.0MHuman Services$2.4MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHealth$1.3MPhilanthropy$675kFood & Nutrition$675kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $258k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE$150,000
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY$150,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK$100,000
Individual grant recipient$80,000
WTVP$60,000
PEORIA BALLET$60,000
DREAM CENTER PEORIA$50,000
BIG PICTURE INITIATIVE$50,000
EASTER SEALS$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PEORIA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $125k → 14%PEORIA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $125k → 14%COMMON PLACE: $10k → 14%COMMON PLACE: $3k → 14%EAST BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%EAST BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%EAST BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $325k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $100k → 14%IMPACT CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%IMPACT CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS: $41k → 14%GREATER PEORIA YMCA: $3k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $150 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 41 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +56% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
27

Total granted

$16M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+56%

Still filing today

66%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PR
    Peoria Riverfront Museum
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +105%
  • OH
    OSF Healthcare Foundation
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +95%
  • IC
    ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $610k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • PP
    PEORIA PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE FARM FBO PICKET FENCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce

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…

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2
Illinois College

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…

Education
3
C E O Council Foundation

Foster community development, advance regional projects, and promote community vibrancy.

Housing & Shelter
4
Peoria Area Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
5
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Illinois Fiscal Policy Council
Public Benefit
7
Illinois Manufacturers' Association

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.

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8
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
9
Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc

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.

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10
Peoria County Farm Bureau

To be an advocate of agriculture through leadership and education.

Food & Nutrition
11
United Way of Central Illinois Inc

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…

Philanthropy
12
Gilmore Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Association of Illinois; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE - PEORIA: $1,664,289 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE - PEORIAUNITYPLACE: $1,510,500 · OtherUNITYPLACEILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $610,000 · OtherILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONUNIV OF ILL COLLEGE OF MEDICINE-PEORIA: $580,785 · OtherUNIV OF ILL COLLEGE OF MEDICINE-PEORIATHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE: $421,465 · OtherLUTHERAN HILLSIDE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $375,000 · OtherDAF360 GIVING: $345,278 · OtherILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE: $333,333 · OtherEASTER SEALS INC: $311,000 · OtherPEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $436,000 · Other+39 more: $2,579,445 · Other+39 moreGREATER PEORIA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $3,144,575 · Community ImprovementGREATER PEORIA LEADE…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $233,535 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE A…Peoria Riverfront Museum: $1,379,150 · Arts & CulturePeoria Riverfr…PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $500,000 · Arts & CulturePEORIA SYMPHON…ILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION: $227,500 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS VALLE…BIG PICTURE INITIATIVE: $198,000 · Arts & CultureBIG PICTURE IN…+2 more: $76,000 · Arts & CultureOSF Healthcare Foundation: $1,260,000 · Health+2 more: $1,250 · HealthMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $425,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY MINISTRIES: $250,000 · Human ServicesEAST BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER NFP: $150,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $120,000 · Human ServicesIMPACT CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $50,000 · Human ServicesADVOCATES FOR ACCESS: $41,000 · Human Services+3 more: $15,650 · Human ServicesUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $562,000 · EducationBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $170,000 · EducationPEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education+2 more: $8,500 · EducationDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $600,000 · Religion
Other$9,167,095Community Improvement$3,378,110Arts & Culture$2,380,650Health$1,261,250Human Services$1,051,650Education$840,500Religion$600,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER PEORIA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $3,144,575 over 2y, 78% of budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum: $1,379,150 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation: $1,260,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $610,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $600,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $562,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $500,000 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetPEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $436,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $425,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE: $421,465 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetLUTHERAN HILLSIDE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $311,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAY MINISTRIES: $250,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $233,535 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION: $227,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBIG PICTURE INITIATIVE: $198,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $170,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER NFP: $150,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $110,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetPEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHEARTLAND FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA: $75,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPEORIA BALLET COMPANY: $60,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIMPACT CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $50,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetADVOCATES FOR ACCESS: $41,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE: $20,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMON PLACE INC: $13,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSME EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PEORIA FAMILY YMCA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWD BOYCE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEORIA AREA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSPRINGDALE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALIGNMENT PEORIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Peoria Area Community…Barton Family Foundat…Share FoundationDoug and Diane Oberhe…Commerce Bancshares F…The Bielfeldt Foundat…Otto Baum Company Inc…Ransburg FoundationPeoria Hospitals Mobi…Heart of Illinois Uni…Timothy W and Katheri…Morgan Stanley Founda…
Peoria Area Community FoundationIL47.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gilmore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilmore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gilmore Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gilmore Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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