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J & V Flynn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$775k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$935kYouth Development$550kHealth$450kFood & Nutrition$220kReligion$215kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $560k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM$150,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK$100,000
OSF HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER PEORIA$75,000
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$60,000
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY$40,000
MONMOUTH COLLEGE$40,000
EUREKA COLLEGE$40,000
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$40,000
WHIP$20,000
HEARTS FOR CHANGE$10,000
MOMS WHO CARE$10,000
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$7,500
CUMBERLAND COLLEGE$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $220k) 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.

area typical 12%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $100k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $50k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $30k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $20k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 19 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
5

Total granted

$4.2M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-21%

Still filing today

53%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • PR
    Peoria Riverfront Museum
    6× · 2020–2025 · $825k · revenue +89%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +8%
  • MC
    MONMOUTH COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • OH
    OSF HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • PP
    PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT 150 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $32k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
3
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education
4
Drury University

Drury University is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning. (Continued on Schedule O)

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
7
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
8
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
9
Muhlenberg College

Muhlenberg aims to help students become independent thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, knowledgeable about the achievements and traditions of diverse civilizations and cultures,…

Education
10
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
11
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is Norman Borlaug Heritage 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $495,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $275,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRIST LUTHERAN SCHOOL — $270,000 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN SCHOOLCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ILLINOIS — $150,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ILLINOISCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH — $120,000 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHOSF HEALTHCARE — $100,000 · OtherOSF HEALTHCAREPEORIA HEIGHTS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $95,000 · OtherPEORIA HEIGHTS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHWHIP — $75,000 · OtherRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL — $60,000 · Other+4 more — $116,500 · Other+4 moreMONMOUTH COLLEGE — $240,000 · EducationMONMOUTH COLLEGEEUREKA COLLEGE — $240,000 · EducationEUREKA COLLEGEILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIV…BRADLEY UNIVERSITY — $90,000 · EducationBRADLEY UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMB…MOMS WHO CARE — $30,000 · Education+2 more — $17,500 · EducationPeoria Riverfront Museum — $825,000 · Arts & CulturePeoria Riverfront Mus…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC — $550,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS C…MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP — $220,000 · Human ServicesOSF Healthcare Foundation — $200,000 · Health
Other$1,756,500Education$872,500Arts & Culture$825,000Youth Development$550,000Human Services$220,000Health$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum — $825,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC — $550,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetMONMOUTH COLLEGE — $240,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEUREKA COLLEGE — $240,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP — $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS WHO CARE — $30,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetNORMAN BORLAUG HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Peoria Riverfront Museum
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC
  • Who funds MONMOUTH COLLEGE
  • Who funds EUREKA COLLEGE
  • Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP
  • Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation
  • Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC
  • Who funds MOMS WHO CARE
  • Who funds NORMAN BORLAUG HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 J & V Flynn 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to J & V Flynn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to J & V Flynn 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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