Illinois · Private foundation
Mary Helen Roberts Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $209k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Mary Helen Roberts Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $209k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $197k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $206k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $238k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $220k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $220k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $224k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home | $66,493 | 5 | 0% |
| Garage in Gilman | $45,501 | 7 | 20% |
| Summer in the Park | $25,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Iroquois County Historical Society | $20,468 | 7 | 9% |
| The Arc of Iroquois County | $16,505 | 1 | 0% |
| Gods Food Pantry | $14,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Iroquois Mental Health Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gilman Old Boys & Girls Association | $8,822 | 2 | n/a |
| Sugar Creek Opera Ltd | $8,500 | 4 | 17% |
| Food From the Heart Inc | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home | $66,493 | 5 | 0% |
| Garage in Gilman | $45,501 | 7 | 20% |
| Summer in the Park | $25,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Iroquois County Historical Society | $20,468 | 7 | 9% |
| The Arc of Iroquois County | $16,505 | 1 | 0% |
| Gods Food Pantry | $14,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Iroquois Mental Health Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gilman Old Boys & Girls Association | $8,822 | 2 | n/a |
| Sugar Creek Opera Ltd | $8,500 | 4 | 17% |
| Food From the Heart Inc | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Volunteer Services of Iroquois Coun | $6,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Camp 911 | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Onarga Historical Society | $5,360 | 2 | n/a |
| Martinton Community Food Pantry | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Central Illinois | $4,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Country Theatre Workshop | $4,500 | 3 | 16% |
| Clifton Community Food Pantry | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iroquois County Goat Producers | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pledge for Life Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iroquois County Youth Center | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Gilman Historical Society | $1,252 | 1 | n/a |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Life Church | $1,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Iroquois County Animal Rescue | $1,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Danforth Historical Society | $800 | 1 | n/a |
| Ford-Iroquois 4-H Foundation Inc | $750 | 2 | n/a |
| South Pointe Youth for Christ | $750 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Helen Roberts Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Mary Helen Roberts Trust
- How much does Mary Helen Roberts Trust give?
- Mary Helen Roberts Trust reported 44 grants totaling $208,514 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Mary Helen Roberts Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (20%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Mary Helen Roberts Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home ($66k), Garage in Gilman ($46k), Summer in the Park ($25k).
- Does Mary Helen Roberts Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Helen Roberts Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Helen Roberts Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc, Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096, Arthur and Gesena Griffin Trust Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group.
- Where is Mary Helen Roberts Trust based?
- Mary Helen Roberts Trust is based in IL.
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