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Peoria Area Community Foundation

The community foundation of central illinois will make a sustainable philanthropic impact in our community through visible leadership in connecting people who care with causes that matter.

$7.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$11MHealth$2.5MEducation$2.4MHuman Services$1.5MEmployment$1.0MReligion$537kArts & Culture$496kYouth Development$308kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 84 grants below total $6,965,614, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,632,231 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $666,617 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $896k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $489k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.4M
$13,242
Median grant
3
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOOK IT'S MY BOOK$1,947,808
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$1,015,000
TRILLIUM PLACE$883,952
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$819,379
MORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$488,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER PEORIA INC$264,400
UNIVERSITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$179,000
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$100,000
FORMAN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$91,031
PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$60,546
TRI-COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE$58,068
ARTISTS REENVISIONING TOMORROW INC (ART INC)$42,500
PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM$36,228
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$33,258
BIG PICTURE INITIATIVE$33,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS TRUST AND ESTATES: $9k → 14%LOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS TRUST AND ESTATES: $8k → 14%LOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK: $20k → 15%SOULSIDE HEALING ARTS: $20k → 14%PHOENIX COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $16k → 14%FAMILYCORE: $10k → 14%TRI-COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $65k → 14%TRI-COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $58k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER ASSOCIATION: $19k → 14%CRITTENTON CENTERS: $19k → 14%CRITTENTON CENTERS: $9k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $24k → 14%EAST BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 14%FOSTER VILLAGE PEORIA: $15k → 14%FOSTER VILLAGE PEORIA: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $6k → 14%LIFELINE INC: $16k → 14%LIFELINE INC: $15k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $6k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $6k → 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

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WI
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IN
CO
DC
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 53 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
33

Total granted

$7.6M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

75%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $779k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TU
    Tri-County Urban League
    2× · 2024–2025 · $124k · revenue +21%
  • PR
    Peoria Riverfront Museum
    2× · 2024–2025 · $115k · revenue +31%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $78k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CI
    Central Illinois Friends of PWA Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $495k · revenue +27%
  • S
    SIMANTEL
    one grant, 2024 · $93k
  • PA
    PEORIA AREA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue -25% · 56% of their budget
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
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
2
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.

Arts & Culture
3
Illinois Partners for Human Service

Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…

Human Services
4
Gilmore Foundation
Philanthropy
5
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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6
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
7
Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity Inc

The pcceo, inc. is a community action agency and leadership organization that promotes self-sufficiency and empowerment and serves as an agent of change for low-and moderate-income individuals and families while improving the standard of…

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8
Community Foundation of Northern Il

The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois ("CFNIL") was established to serve as a catalyst for giving and a promoter of philanthropy. The Foundation attracts, preserves, and grows a charitable endowment for the present and future needs…

Philanthropy
9
Illinois Fiscal Policy Council
Public Benefit
10
United Way of Central Illinois Inc

The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…

Philanthropy
11
Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation

Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.

Philanthropy
12
Cpa Endowment Fund of Illinois

To ensure a strong, talented, and diverse cpa profession in illinois by encouraging individuals to choose accounting as a career choice and become a cpa, and by supporting students, particularly those in need, in achieving the cpa.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Association of Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Strays Inc. 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

89 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. 89 of the 117 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/89
Grantees still filing
39/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEORIA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,155,693 · PhilanthropyPEORIA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,447,955 · PhilanthropyMORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+4 more: $316,295 · PhilanthropyGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $1,030,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF…Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois: $881,879 · OtherRonald McDonald House …GENERAL COUNCIL ON FINANCE & ADMINS OF THE UNITED: $179,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC: $264,400 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF …+66 more: $1,602,378 · Other+66 moreLOOK ITS MY BOOK: $2,000,308 · EducationLOOK ITS MY…+5 more: $80,521 · EducationTrillium Place: $1,800,491 · HealthTrillium P…+8 more: $101,858 · Health+8 moreCentral Illinois Friends of PWA Inc: $494,911 · Housing & ShelterFREEDOM HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPeoria Riverfront Museum: $115,494 · Arts & CultureBIG PICTURE INITIATIVE: $63,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS REENVISIONING TOMORROW INC: $55,245 · Arts & CultureWHEELS O' TIME MUSEUM: $51,500 · Arts & CultureARTSPARTNERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $26,421 · Arts & CultureCORN STOCK THEATRE: $20,800 · Arts & CulturePrinceton Theater Group: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHEARTLAND FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA: $19,942 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,043 · Arts & CultureTri-County Urban League: $123,557 · Human ServicesLOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK: $40,000 · Human ServicesLIFELINE INC: $30,525 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $30,022 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLAGE PEORIA: $30,000 · Human ServicesCRITTENTON CENTERS: $27,623 · Human ServicesSoulside Healing Arts: $20,000 · Human ServicesGeorge Washington Carver Association: $19,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,124 · Human ServicesSouth Side Office of Concern: $16,000 · Human Services+4 more: $41,567 · Human Services
Philanthropy$10,919,943Other$3,957,657Education$2,080,829Health$1,902,349Housing & Shelter$524,911Arts & Culture$408,445Human Services$395,418

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 budgetPEORIA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,155,693 over 7y, 58% of budgetLOOK ITS MY BOOK: $2,000,308 over 2y, 35% of budgetTrillium Place: $1,800,491 over 2y, 85% of budgetMORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,447,955 over 2y, 46% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $1,030,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois: $881,879 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCentral Illinois Friends of PWA Inc: $494,911 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC: $264,400 over 1y, 16% of budgetThe Forman Valley Community Foundation Inc: $168,278 over 2y, 68% of budgetTri-County Urban League: $123,557 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $118,558 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum: $115,494 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $77,521 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBIG PICTURE INITIATIVE: $63,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetARTISTS REENVISIONING TOMORROW INC: $55,245 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWHEELS O' TIME MUSEUM: $51,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetPEORIA AREA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $50,772 over 1y, 56% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $50,092 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE: $48,784 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHult Center for Healthy Living Inc: $47,102 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetPEORIA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE: $44,623 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK: $38,691 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,300 over 2y, 15% of budgetHEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $36,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC: $31,809 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $31,640 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIFELINE INC: $30,525 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $30,022 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTSPARTNERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetFOSTER VILLAGE PEORIA: $30,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $29,024 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCRITTENTON CENTERS: $27,623 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWHY NOT NOW INC: $27,400 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF PEORIA: $26,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetPEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $26,421 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWASHINGTON HELPS ITS PEOPLE: $24,842 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetPublic Interest Law Initiative: $24,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $22,655 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $22,655 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORN STOCK THEATRE: $20,800 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPrinceton Theater Group: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSoulside Healing Arts: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetApostolic Christian Home of Roanoke Illinois Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH SYMPHONY: $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetHEARTLAND FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA: $19,942 over 2y, 3.8% 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.

Barton Family Foundat…Gilmore FoundationHeart of Illinois Uni…Commerce Bancshares F…Doug and Diane Oberhe…The Bielfeldt Foundat…Ruby K Worner Charita…Share FoundationOtto Baum Company Inc…The Miles C Hauter Fo…Peoria Hospitals Mobi…Prairie Center of the…
Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013IL49.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Gilmore Foundation · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · The Bielfeldt Foundation · Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust · Share Foundation · Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation · The Miles C Hauter Foundation · Peoria Hospitals Mobile Medical Services D/B/A Adv Medical Trans of Central Il · Prairie Center of the Arts

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 Peoria Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peoria Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 117 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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