· Private foundation
Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM | $51,395 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $15,000 |
| ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES INC | $5,000 |
| ILLINI CENTRAL CUSD 189 | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PRPeoria Riverfront Museum7× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +105%
- PSPEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +166%
- NCNorth Central College3× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- AFAmericans for Middle East Understanding Incone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +10%
- PPPEORIA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +64%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
Junior Achievement of Central Illinois inspires and prepares young people to succeed in the global economy. Our volunteer-delivered, experiential programs give students knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and…
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.
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…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life by educating and disseminating agricultural information to members and others in such areas as finance, economics and governmental policy.
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…
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The operation of a children's museum.
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Center and the most unlike its peers is Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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 Peoria Riverfront Museum ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Sun Foundation Environmental Sciences and Arts ↗
- Who funds Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK ↗
- Who funds PEORIA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEORIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER INFANT CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BEST BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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: Peoria Area Community Foundation · The Bielfeldt Foundation · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Gilmore Foundation · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · OSF Healthcare System · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.