· Private foundation
Mary Helen Roberts Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GILMAN COMM FIRE PROTECTION DISTRIC | $7,500 |
| UNIT 9 ACADEMIC FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MARTINTON COMM FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| WATSEKA FIRE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| GODS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOOD | $5,000 |
| GILMAN OLD BOYS & GIRLS ASSN | $4,822 |
| WOODLAND FIRE PROTECTION DIST | $4,800 |
| DANFORTH TWP COMM BLDG | $4,000 |
| GILMAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IMIROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME5× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +78%
- 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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 88 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Helen Roberts Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Helen Roberts Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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