· Private foundation
Mary Helen Roberts Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IROQUOIS WEST SCHOOL DISTRICT 10 | $40,000 |
| IROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,050 |
| IROQUOIS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| DOUGLAS TOWNSHIP PARK DISTRICT | $9,478 |
| UNIT 9 ACADEMIC FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GILMAN COMM FIRE PROTECTION DISTRIC | $7,500 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOOD | $5,000 |
| WATSEKA FIRE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MARTINTON COMM FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| GODS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| GILMAN OLD BOYS & GIRLS ASSN | $4,822 |
| WOODLAND FIRE PROTECTION DIST | $4,800 |
| DANFORTH TWP COMM BLDG | $4,000 |
| SUMMER IN THE PARK | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
46 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- IMIROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME5× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +73%
- VSVOLUNTEER SERVICES OF IROQUOIS COUN3× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +73%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- DTDOUGLAS TOWNSHIP PARK DISTRICTMANN PARKone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TATHE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +10%
- GCGILMAN COMM FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Rescue and rehoming of German Shorthaired Pointers
The mission of the Illinois Valley Senior Center (IVSC) is to serve as a social outlet for senior citizens, age 55 or older, and their spouse or significant other; encourage friendship between IVSC members and introduce senior newcomers to…
The society's mission is to collect preserve and disseminate information related to the history of rock island county illinois
The irha is currently focusing on a number of critical areas that impact access to quality health care in rural il, including ems, mental health, and serving the citizens of rural il.
To improve net income of our farming families, improve the economic well being of our members, and promote a positive image for the agriculture community.
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
Humane society for animal care
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home and the most unlike its peers is Garage in Gilman. 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 88 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.
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: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096 · Arthur and Gesena Griffin Trust Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group · Freed Charitable Trust · Paul & Norma Schaumburg Charitable · Miner Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Mary Helen Roberts Trust 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.