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Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois | $10,000 |
| OSF Healthcare System | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Carle Development Foundation | $2,500 |
| Easterseals Central Illinois | $2,500 |
| Oak Ridge Outdoor Foundation | $2,500 |
| Jon Denzer Bear Hug Foundation | $2,000 |
| Illinois CancerCare Foundation | $2,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $1,850 |
| Junior Achievement of Central Illinois | $1,700 |
| National Wild Turkey Federation Inc | $1,500 |
| San Damiano College for the Trades | $1,000 |
| Downtown Development Corporation of Peoria | $1,000 |
| Morton Economic Development Council | $1,000 |
| Camp of Champions USA Ltd | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +74%- ICILLINOIS CANCERCARE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +62%
- DDDOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PEORIA3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SUSKILLS USA INCone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $7k
- BPBUILD PEORIAone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -8%
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.
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 be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
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…
The peoria area chamber of commerce is a membership organization of businesses, delivering value to its members by 1) cultivating a thriving business community, 2) presenting the united voice of local business to government, 3) offering…
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.
Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.
To elevate illinois state university through the power of philanthropy.
Decatur memorial hospital (dmh) serves the healthcare needs of the people of central illinois through operation of a 280-bed acute care hospital and related facilities providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and physician services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carle Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Midwest Ridge Runners. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 101 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.
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare System ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS CANCERCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILD PEORIA ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PEORIA ↗
- Who funds JON DENZER BEAR HUG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carle Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds OAK RIDGE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ILLINOIS MEMORIAL KIDNEY FUND ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP OF CHAMPIONS USA LTD ↗
- Who funds PEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
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: Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Peoria Area Community Foundation · Gilmore Foundation · Share Foundation · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · The Growmark Foundation · The Bielfeldt Foundation · Peoria Hospitals Mobile Medical Services D/B/A Adv Medical Trans of Central Il · Christian Charities Foundation · OSF Healthcare System
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 Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation 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.
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