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John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee at a glance

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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.7MEducation$1.6MHuman Services$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.1MArts & Culture$965kYouth Development$495kFood & Nutrition$352kPhilanthropy$282kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $536k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $726k
$21,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FRIENDS OF THE LINCOLN SQUARE THEAT$40,000
LITTLE THEATRE ON THE SQUARE$40,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR & MACON$35,000
MACON RESOURCES$33,750
HSHS ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL$26,195
BABY TALK$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BABY FOLD: $75k → 11%WILLOW TREE MISSIONS: $124k → 7%WILLOW TREE MISSIONS: $59k → 7%EDUC CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIR: $5k → 11%EDUC CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIR: $600 → 11%GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $10k → 15%GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $10k → 15%GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $5k → 15%GOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $5k → 15%WEBSTER-CANTRALL YOUTH ADVOCACY: $57k → 15%WEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY: $30k → 15%DECATUR MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES: $25k → 15%DECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CO: $25k → 15%DECATUR MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES: $20k → 15%DECATUR MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES: $10k → 15%WOODFORD HOMES INC: $87k → 15%WOODFORD HOMES INC: $60k → 15%WOODFORD HOMES INC: $50k → 15%WOODFORD HOMES INC: $40k → 15%WOODFORD HOMES INC: $39k → 15%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 67 repeat orgs$705k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
25

Total granted

$9.8M
$469k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+46%

Still filing today

54%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • WH
    WOODFORD HOMES INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $276k · revenue +67%
  • RC
    ROBERTSON CHARTER SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $253k · revenue +35%
  • CH
    Community Health Improvement Center
    4× · 2017–2020 · $240k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $43k · revenue +47%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $39k
  • GS
    GREATER STL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS
    one grant, 2023 · $33k
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
Decatur Area Senior Citizens Council Inc

Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois

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2
Decatur Cooperative Ministry Inc

Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.

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3
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
4
Economic Development Corp of Decatur-Macon County

To coordinate non-retail business attraction, retention, and expansion efforts in macon county, illinois.

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5
Decatur County Community Foundation Inc

The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.

Philanthropy
6
Decatur Day Care Center Inc

To provide child care services for local residents.

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7
Decatur County United Fund Inc

To support social services in decatur county.

Philanthropy
8
Community Investment Corporation of Decatur Inc

Promoting and assisting the development, establishment and expansion of local businesses and industries.

Community Improvement
9
Macomb County Humane Society

Provide care for homeless/abused animals

Animals
10
Land of Lincoln Goodwill Industries Inc

To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.

Employment
11
Decatur Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

To encourage, foster, promote and stimulate conventions and tourism in the decatur, illinois area.

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12
Old Kings Orchard Community Center Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Macon County; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 100 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKE LAND COMMUNITY COLLE: $1,024,220 · OtherLAKE LAND COMMUNITY COLLEHSHS ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FDN: $400,000 · OtherHSHS ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FDNILLINOIS AMISH HERITAGE CENTER: $365,000 · OtherILLINOIS AMISH HERITAGE CENTERDECATUR FAMILY YMCA: $253,150 · OtherST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $240,000 · Other+64 more: $3,048,188 · Other+64 moreMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $984,000 · EducationMILLIKIN UNIVERS…ROBERTSON CHARTER SCHOOL: $253,190 · EducationROBERTSON CHARTE…DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $140,819 · EducationDECATUR PUBLIC S…MERIDIAN AG FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EducationMERIDIAN AG FOUN…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCommunity Health Improvement Center: $240,175 · HealthCommunity H…DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $225,000 · HealthDECATUR MEM…MIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP: $179,232 · HealthMIDWEST SIG…MOULTRIE COUNTY COUNSELING CENTER: $157,625 · HealthMOULTRIE CO…MACON RESOURCES INC: $153,750 · HealthMACON RESOU…SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER: $70,950 · HealthSARAH BUSH …Ronald McDonald House Global: $45,000 · Health+2 more: $12,619 · HealthWOODFORD HOMES INC: $276,000 · Human ServicesWILLOW TREE MISSIONS NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $182,752 · Human ServicesWEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY: $86,847 · Human ServicesDECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE BABY FOLD: $75,000 · Human ServicesGOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $29,600 · Human Services+1 more: $6,070 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS: $162,123 · Arts & CultureTHE LITTLE THEATRE - ON THE SQUARE INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC: $29,070 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS AMISH INFORMATION EXHIBITS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC: $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHEMILAH OUTREACH CENTER: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSista Girls and Friends Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW VISION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $119,000 · Food & NutritionGOOD SAMARITAN INN: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$6,485,558Education$1,523,009Health$1,084,351Human Services$736,269Arts & Culture$286,193Youth Development$235,000Food & Nutrition$149,000

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 budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $984,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWOODFORD HOMES INC: $276,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetROBERTSON CHARTER SCHOOL: $253,190 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Health Improvement Center: $240,175 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetDECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DECATUR INC: $210,000 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetWILLOW TREE MISSIONS NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $182,752 over 2y, 12% of budgetMIDWEST SIGHT FOUNDATION NFP: $179,232 over 9y, 75% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ILLINOIS: $162,123 over 9y, 13% of budgetMOULTRIE COUNTY COUNSELING CENTER: $157,625 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetMACON RESOURCES INC: $153,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $140,819 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetMACON COUNTY CASA: $139,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetMERIDIAN AG FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNEW VISION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $119,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $117,180 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDECATUR AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $88,500 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetWEBSTER CANTRELL YOUTH ADVOCACY: $86,847 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE - ON THE SQUARE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDECATUR PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetDECATUR-MACON COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES CORP: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBABY TALK INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BABY FOLD: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER: $70,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF DECATUR AND MACON COUNTY: $70,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetDECATUR AREA HABITAT: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWEBSTER-CANTRELL HALL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetENERGY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY FUND: $42,677 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN INN: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGOD'S SHELTER OF LOVE: $29,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJAMES MILLIKIN HOMESTEAD INC: $29,070 over 4y, 10% of budgetBEAUTIFY DECATUR COALITION: $29,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetSCOUTS OF AMERICA 144 ABRAHAM LINCOLN COUNCIL: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGREAT PLAINS LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MACON COUNTY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHEMILAH OUTREACH CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetENCORE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSista Girls and Friends Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INCSPOT LTD: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTeen Challenge Illinois: $8,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $6,070 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetJUVAE JAZZ SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,619 over 2y, 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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Andreas FoundationUnited Way of Decatur…James Millikin Trust ATs & Juanita Ballance…Amherst F Hardy Found…The Erwin and Linda A…Edward Whinnery TrustHenry M Staley Declar…Howard G Buffett Foun…John & Judy Rice Fami…Community Foundation …
The Community Foundation of Macon CountyIL71.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Ullrich Foundation Trust Busey Trust Co - Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 100 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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