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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEORIA NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $26,400 |
| MORTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $19,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MORTON APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $13,500 |
| MORTON POLICE DEPARTMENT | $11,180 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCEVILLE | $10,300 |
| PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $9,500 |
| OTTER CREEK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,200 |
| SALEM4YOUTH | $7,200 |
| DREAM CENTER PEORIA | $6,000 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL | $6,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Morton Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 42%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL4× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +35%
- PSPEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA4× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +166%
University of Illinois Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinoisone grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue -52%
- PNPeoria Notre Dame High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $37k
- STSmile Trainone grant, 2023 · $27k
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.
The operation of a children's museum.
The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…
To strengthen the economic social environmental and governmental conditions for manufacturing and allied enterprises in the state of illinois, resulting in an englarged business base and increased employment.
To be a leader in quality health care to all people of central and southern illinois in support of the mission of the southern illinois university school of medicine.
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
Preserve the history of central illinos and to promote this history through education
The illinois business alliance is a nonprofit, member-driven business league that exists to improve illinois' business climate and promote the common economic interests of its members.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 71 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.
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNLIMITED GRACE MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WE CARE INC OF MORTON ↗
- Who funds Historical Association of Princeville ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morton Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morton Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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