· Public charity
Heart of Illinois United Way Inc
To increase the organized capacity of people in central Illinois to care for one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $5,248,780 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,383,296 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $134,516 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $298k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Prairie State Legal Services | $433,000 |
| Center for Prevention of Abuse | $427,420 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Peoria | $308,353 |
| Crittenton Center | $296,629 |
| Advanced Medical Transport | $286,472 |
| Phoenix Community Develoment | $243,270 |
| EPIC | $235,405 |
| CASA of the 10th Judicial Circuit | $232,554 |
| Children's Home | $223,753 |
| Neighborhood House | $219,000 |
| Goodwill Industries | $195,973 |
| Central IL Friends of PWA | $179,993 |
| Dream Center Peoria | $162,000 |
| GW Carver Center | $126,000 |
| Peoria Friendship House | $124,999 |
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 (FY21–25, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +39%
- SSSouth Side Office of Concern5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +10%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY FOR SPOON RIVER COUNTRYone grant, 2021 · $73k · revenue -1% · 60% of their budget
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinoisone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue -41%
- WCWE CARE INC OF MORTONone grant, 2021 · $31k
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 81 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 THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds South Side Office of Concern ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ADVANCED MEDICAL TRANSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Hult Center for Healthy Living Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds George Washington Carver Association ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKSHOP & TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Friends of PWA Inc ↗
- Who funds PEORIA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC D/B/A HEARTLAND HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Tri-County Urban League ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TAZEWELL COUNTY RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Peoria Area Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds TAZWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PEKIN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PEORIA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Gilmore Foundation · The Bielfeldt Foundation · United Way of Pekin · Share Foundation · Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · The Miles C Hauter Foundation · Methodist Medical Center of Illinois
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 Heart of Illinois United Way Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
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.