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Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$139k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2026
7
Organizations funded FY2025
14%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$54,175
Organizations funded a year
7 to 20
FY2018 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
3
Total assets, FY2026
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 14% of the organizations Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationReligionHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving4$139k25%
FY20257$145k14%
FY20248$145k13%
FY202310$168k20%
FY202212$153k17%
FY202111$138k45%
FY201920$135k55%
FY201816$121k63%
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$489kInternational$151kEducation$130kPhilanthropy$127kHuman Services$53kYouth Development$44kScience & Tech$30kMembership Benefit$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Peoria Riverfront Museum$251,07082%
New Orleans Museum of Art$191,40070%
Peoria Symphony Orchestra$115,00074%
Grameen Foundation USA$95,00640%
North Central College$30,00030%
The Salvation Army$27,5002n/a
Bradley University$25,89130%
American Near East Refugee Aid$24,00020%
Best Buddies International Inc$23,50030%
Sun Foundation Environmental Sciences and Arts$20,40023%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($299k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum: $251,070 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetNew Orleans Museum of Art: $191,400 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPeoria Symphony Orchestra: $115,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetGrameen Foundation USA: $95,006 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Central College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBradley University: $25,891 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Near East Refugee Aid: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSun Foundation Environmental Sciences and Arts: $20,400 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAmericans for Middle East Understanding Inc: $18,881 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetThe Christian Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Prevention of Abuse: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPeoria Academy Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestminster Infant Care Center: $6,878 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetEasterseals Central Illinois: $6,265 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHeavens View Community Development Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMetec: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetArtspartners of Central Illinois Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTeen Challenge Illinois: $2,054 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Peoria Area Community FoundationIL28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust

How much does Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust give?
Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust reported 4 grants totaling $139,175 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
What does Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), International (13%), Education (11%).
Who are Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Peoria Riverfront Museum ($251k), New Orleans Museum of Art ($191k), Peoria Symphony Orchestra ($115k).
Does Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Peoria Area Community Foundation, The Bielfeldt Foundation, Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013.
Where is Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust based?
Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust is based in PA.

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 47 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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