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Morton Community Foundation
The mission of the MORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to improve the quality of life for morton area residents, now and for generations to come. We do this by: building community endowment, investing in our community through strategic grant making, turning donors' charitable dreams into permanent legacies, and providing leadership to…
- $509k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $132k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Morton Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 11 | $132k | 64% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $130k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $261k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $180k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $202k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $40k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $205k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $207k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blessed Sacrament Church | $117,628 | 3 | n/a |
| Morton Public Library | $41,242 | 4 | n/a |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois | $37,750 | 1 | 1% |
| Peoria Christian School | $34,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Peoria Symphony Orchestra | $30,493 | 4 | 1% |
| Notre Dame High School of Peoria Inc | $26,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Unlimited Grace Media Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $24,329 | 3 | 0% |
| Illinois State Museum Society | $24,329 | 3 | 2% |
| Otter Creek Historical Society | $18,550 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($929k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morton Community Foundation 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: Share Foundation · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Peoria Area Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Gilmore Foundation · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Morton Community Foundation
- How much does Morton Community Foundation give?
- Morton Community Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $132,280, out of $508,614 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Morton Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (20%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Morton Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blessed Sacrament Church ($118k), Morton Public Library ($41k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ($38k).
- Does Morton Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Morton Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Share Foundation, Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation, Peoria Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Morton Community Foundation based?
- Morton Community Foundation is based in IL.
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