· Private foundation
John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of JOHN ULLRICH FOUNDATION TRUST BUSEY TRUST CO - TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $536k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $726k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE LAND COMMUNITY COLLE | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $115,000 |
| ILLINOIS AMISH HERITAGE CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE BABY FOLD | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID-ILLIN | $64,000 |
| WILLOW TREE MISSIONS | $59,000 |
| DECATUR FAMILY YMCA | $57,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR | $40,000 |
| LITTLE THEATRE ON THE SQUARE | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LINCOLN SQUARE THEAT | $40,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR & MACON | $35,000 |
| MACON RESOURCES | $33,750 |
| HSHS ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL | $26,195 |
| BABY TALK | $25,000 |
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, $736k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% 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.
67 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- WHWOODFORD HOMES INC5× · 2019–2024 · $276k · revenue +67%
- RCROBERTSON CHARTER SCHOOL5× · 2017–2022 · $253k · revenue +35%
- CHCommunity Health Improvement Center4× · 2017–2020 · $240k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $43k · revenue +47%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $39k
- GSGREATER STL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2023 · $33k
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.
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
To coordinate non-retail business attraction, retention, and expansion efforts in macon county, illinois.
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
To provide child care services for local residents.
To support social services in decatur county.
Promoting and assisting the development, establishment and expansion of local businesses and industries.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
To encourage, foster, promote and stimulate conventions and tourism in the decatur, illinois area.
Old king's orchard community center (the organization) is a 501(c)3 community-focused nonprofit located in decatur, il, with the mission of providing a safe environment for children and seniors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Macon County and the most unlike its peers is The Incspot Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 100 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 MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOODFORD HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTSON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Community Health Improvement Center ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW TREE MISSIONS NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MOULTRIE COUNTY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN AG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds DECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE - ON THE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds BABY TALK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Macon County · Andreas Foundation · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il · James Millikin Trust A · Ts & Juanita Ballance Foundation · Amherst F Hardy Foundation · The Erwin and Linda Arends Foundation · Edward Whinnery Trust · Henry M Staley Declaration of Charit Tr D/B/A Staley Family Foundation · Howard G Buffett Foundation · John & Judy Rice Family Foundation · Community Foundation of East Central 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 John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee 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.