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.

Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust

Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$139k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$54k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2026 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

$10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$50k–250k2 grants · $104k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM	$54,175
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART	$50,000
GRAMEEN FOUNDATION	$25,000
SUN FDN FOR THE ADVANCEMENT IN THE	$10,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+64%

Still filing today

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthOther

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

PR
Peoria Riverfront Museum
8× · 2017–2026 · $251k · revenue +105%
PS
PEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +166%
NC
North Central College
3× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +11%

Funded once

AF
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +10%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +64%
PP
PEORIA PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $15k

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.

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Junior Achievement of Central Illinois Inc

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…

International

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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Illinois College

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…

Education

Music Institute of Chicago

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.

Arts & Culture

Illinois Agricultural Association

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.

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University of Illinois Alumni Association

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…

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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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Children's Museum of Illinois

The operation of a children's museum.

Arts & Culture

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

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

University of Indianapolis

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.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Center; 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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

21/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$572,470Other$436,410International$157,506Education$63,391Religion$20,000Health$13,765Human Services$11,878

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home