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Heart of Illinois United Way Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Heart of Illinois United Way Inc

To increase the organized capacity of people in central Illinois to care for one another.

$5.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$433k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$7.8MHealth$6.3MYouth Development$4.3MEmployment$3.2MHousing & Shelter$2.4MCrime & Legal$2.3MReligion$1.3MCommunity Improvement$953kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 50 grants below total $5,248,780, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,383,296 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $134,516 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $298k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$76,498
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Phoenix Community Develoment: $522k → 14%Phoenix Community Development: $346k → 14%Midwest Food Bank: $107k → 11%Phoenix Community Develoment: $342k → 14%Midwest Food Bank: $92k → 11%Midwest Food Bank: $78k → 11%Midwest Food Bank: $58k → 11%Midwest Food Bank: $24k → 11%Phoenix Community Develoment: $243k → 14%FamilyCore: $242k → 14%Phoenix Community Develoment: $145k → 14%TCRC: $93k → 9%FamilyCore: $128k → 14%TCRC: $92k → 9%FamilyCore: $127k → 14%TCRC: $90k → 9%FamilyCore: $115k → 14%TCRC: $85k → 9%FamilyCore: $84k → 14%TCRC: $74k → 9%TriCounty Urban League: $211k → 14%GW Carver Center: $189k → 14%TriCounty Urban League: $187k → 14%GW Carver Center: $177k → 14%GW Carver Center: $160k → 14%GW Carver Center: $126k → 14%GW Carver Center: $117k → 14%TriCounty Urban League: $55k → 14%TriCounty Urban League: $25k → 14%TriCounty Urban League: $19k → 14%Greater Peoria Family YMCA: $90k → 14%Greater Peoria Family YMCA: $40k → 14%Greater Peoria YMCA: $36k → 14%Children's Home: $322k → 14%Children's Home: $310k → 14%CWTC: $120k → 14%CWTC: $118k → 14%Center for Youth and Family: $115k → 14%CWTC: $111k → 14%CWTC: $105k → 14%CWTC: $103k → 14%Children's Home: $258k → 14%Children's Home: $241k → 14%Center for Youth and Family: $100k → 14%Children's Home: $224k → 14%Center for Youth and Family: $91k → 14%Center for Youth and Family: $86k → 14%Center for Youth and Family: $84k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MA
IN
PA
CA
AZ
KS
SC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 59 repeat orgs$452k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
19

Total granted

$30M
$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

83%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +39%
  • SS
    South Side Office of Concern
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +10%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY FOR SPOON RIVER COUNTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $73k · revenue -1% · 60% of their budget
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois
    one grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue -25%
  • WC
    WE CARE INC OF MORTON
    one grant, 2021 · $31k
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
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
2
Illinois Partners for Human Service

Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…

Human Services
3
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
4
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
5
Heart of Illinois United Way Inc

To increase the organized capacity of people in central Illinois to care for one another.

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6
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
7
United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

Philanthropy
8
Central Illinois Services

To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…

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9
Central Illinois Service Access Inc

Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.

—
10
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
11
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
12
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Youth and Family Solutions; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Children of Haiti Foundation. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
33/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE: $2,118,099 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSECrittenton Center: $1,574,018 · OtherCrittenton CenterEPIC: $1,365,414 · OtherEPICTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,362,790 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHult Center for Healthy Living Inc: $1,091,466 · OtherHult Center for Healthy Living IncGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $845,182 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOISAmerican Red Cross: $466,684 · OtherBoy Scounts WD Boyce: $433,780 · OtherCentral Illinois Friends of PWA Inc: $542,266 · OtherFREEDOM HOUSE INC: $441,849 · Other+43 more: $2,452,742 · Other+43 moreSouth Side Office of Concern: $1,597,875 · Human ServicesSouth Side Office of Conc…CHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $1,355,714 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATI…George Washington Carver Association: $770,206 · Human ServicesGeorge Washington Carver …COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE: $695,516 · Human ServicesCOUNSELING AND FAMILY SER…COMMUNITY WORKSHOP & TRAINING CENTER INC: $557,403 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY WORKSHOP & TRAI…Tri-County Urban League: $497,244 · Human ServicesTri-County Urban LeagueTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $475,588 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND …TAZEWELL COUNTY RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $434,538 · Human ServicesTAZEWELL COUNTY RESOURCE …MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $358,925 · Human Services+2 more: $171,486 · Human ServicesEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $1,572,477 · HealthEASTERSEALS CENT…ADVANCED MEDICAL TRANSPORT INC: $1,316,941 · HealthADVANCED MEDICAL…OSF Healthcare Foundation: $664,749 · HealthOSF Healthcare F…HEARTLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC D/B/A HEARTLAND HEALTH SERVICES: $520,434 · HealthHEARTLAND COMMUN…TAZWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $208,299 · Health+2 more: $96,669 · HealthPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,470,357 · Crime & LegalCASA OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT: $869,767 · Crime & LegalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC: $1,505,999 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $586,473 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $909,356 · Community ImprovementPEORIA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE: $521,705 · Community ImprovementDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $981,811 · Religion+3 more: $54,842 · Religion
Other$12,694,290Human Services$6,914,495Health$4,379,569Crime & Legal$2,340,124Youth Development$2,092,472Community Improvement$1,431,061Religion$1,036,653

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE: $2,118,099 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetSouth Side Office of Concern: $1,597,875 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $1,572,477 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC: $1,505,999 over 5y, 22% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,470,357 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $1,355,714 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHult Center for Healthy Living Inc: $1,091,466 over 5y, 27% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $981,811 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $909,356 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetCASA OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT: $869,767 over 5y, 22% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $845,182 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGeorge Washington Carver Association: $770,206 over 5y, 25% of budgetCOUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE: $695,516 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation: $664,749 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $586,473 over 5y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKSHOP & TRAINING CENTER INC: $557,403 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCentral Illinois Friends of PWA Inc: $542,266 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetPEORIA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE: $521,705 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetHEARTLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC D/B/A HEARTLAND HEALTH SERVICES: $520,434 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTri-County Urban League: $497,244 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $475,588 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE INC: $441,849 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTAZEWELL COUNTY RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $434,538 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Peoria Area Inc: $394,432 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $358,925 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTAZWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $208,299 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PEKIN: $193,313 over 5y, 24% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $166,478 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetGREATER PEORIA FAMILY YMCA: $166,286 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY: $141,330 over 3y, 11% of budgetPEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION: $111,356 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $91,153 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $86,669 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SPOON RIVER COUNTRY: $73,499 over 1y, 60% of budgetPearce Community Center Inc: $67,546 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $55,588 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum: $53,180 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY INC: $42,321 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $40,558 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $36,691 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois: $34,038 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $32,987 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $32,826 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWE CARE INC OF MORTON: $31,006 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $28,151 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETHODIST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $28,004 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $26,753 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $25,608 over 3y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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…Commerce Bancshares F…Doug and Diane Oberhe…Gilmore FoundationThe Bielfeldt Foundat…United Way of PekinShare FoundationOtto Baum Company Inc…Morgan Stanley Founda…The Miles C Hauter Fo…Methodist Medical Cen…
Peoria Area Community FoundationIL47× 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 · 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

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 Heart of Illinois United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heart of Illinois United Way Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 81 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 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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