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Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation at a glance

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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.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$39kEmployment$19kCommunity Improvement$12kRecreation & Sports$12kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$7kReligion$7kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$193k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Jon Denzer Bear Hug Foundation: $2k → 10%CONSTRUCTION ANGELS: $250 → 13%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%PEORIA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $300 → 14%PEORIA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $300 → 14%PEORIA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $300 → 14%PEORIA RESCUE MINISTRIES: $300 → 14%Pathway Ministries: $300 → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $250 → 9%Midwest Food Bank Nfp Inc: $150 → 9%JON DENZER BEAR HUG FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IA
IN
OH
MO
TN
SC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 31 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
38

Total granted

$80k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

61%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +74%
  • IC
    ILLINOIS CANCERCARE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +62%
  • DD
    DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PEORIA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SU
    SKILLS USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • BP
    BUILD PEORIA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -8%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Gilmore Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Siu Physicians & Surgeons Inc

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.

Health
3
Illinois Center for Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Methodist Medical Center of Illinois

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
5
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

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…

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6
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
7
The Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce

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…

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8
Field Foundation of Illinois
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9
Illinois Manufacturers' Association

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.

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10
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
11
Illinois State University Foundation

To elevate illinois state university through the power of philanthropy.

Education
12
Decatur Memorial Hospital

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carle Development Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $10,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOISSKILLS USA INC: $7,500 · OtherSKILLS USA INCIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT - CENTRAL IL HALL OF FAME: $6,400 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT - CENTRAL IL HALL OF FAMEIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherBUILD PEORIA: $5,000 · OtherNational Wild Turkey Federation Inc: $4,050 · OtherPEORIA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Other+61 more: $39,700 · Other+61 moreEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $10,000 · HealthEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOI…OSF Healthcare System: $6,500 · HealthOSF Healthcare SystemST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,450 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH…ILLINOIS CANCERCARE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthILLINOIS CANCERCARE FOUNDAT…Carle Development Foundation: $2,500 · HealthCarle Development Foundatio…CENTRAL ILLINOIS MEMORIAL KIDNEY FUND: $2,250 · HealthCENTRAL ILLINOIS MEMORIAL K…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,750 · Health+6 more: $2,425 · Health+6 moreJON DENZER BEAR HUG FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY MINISTRIES: $1,500 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $1,400 · Human ServicesCONSTRUCTION ANGELS INC: $250 · Human ServicesOAK RIDGE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP OF CHAMPIONS USA LTD: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentElite Community Outreach Inc: $500 · Youth DevelopmentKEVIN BROWN MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT OF: $500 · Youth DevelopmentDOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PEORIA: $3,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT PLAINS LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · PhilanthropyTAYLOR RUDDS SAVING GRACE FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyRIVER CITY CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyLABORERS LOCAL 362 CHARITABLE FUND: $250 · PhilanthropyMORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100 · PhilanthropyST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationMcKendree University: $200 · EducationSPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200 · Education
Other$99,650Health$37,875Human Services$6,150Youth Development$4,500Community Improvement$3,000Philanthropy$2,600Education$2,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOSF Healthcare System: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS CANCERCARE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBUILD PEORIA: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PEORIA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJON DENZER BEAR HUG FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCarle Development Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAK RIDGE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ILLINOIS MEMORIAL KIDNEY FUND: $2,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAY MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PLAINS LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE: $1,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP OF CHAMPIONS USA LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARK LINDER WALK FOR THE MIND: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $575 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElite Community Outreach Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCKPORT JUNIOR PORTERS: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAYLOR RUDDS SAVING GRACE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEVIN BROWN MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT OF: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CITY CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIDWEST RIDGE RUNNERS: $300 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORTON POST NO 318: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSTRUCTION ANGELS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLydia's Mission: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLABORERS LOCAL 362 CHARITABLE FUND: $250 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcKendree University: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Margaret's Hospital Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Doug and Diane Oberhe…Peoria Area Community…Gilmore FoundationShare FoundationBarton Family Foundat…Commerce Bancshares F…Heart of Illinois Uni…The Growmark Foundati…The Bielfeldt Foundat…Peoria Hospitals Mobi…Christian Charities F…OSF Healthcare System
Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family FoundationIL28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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