· Private foundation
Rucker Family Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK | $64,045 |
| PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEECH LAKE | $5,138 |
| SUN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WCBU ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SPRINGDALE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BUILD THE HANNA CITY TRAIL | $5,000 |
| MASS INST OF TECHNOLOGY SLOAN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| TEXTILE CENTER | $2,500 |
| MIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| UNITED DRAG ALLIANCE | $2,050 |
| MACALASTER PLYMOUTH CHURCH | $1,500 |
| MOVE 2 LEARN | $1,035 |
| CENTRAL ILLINOIS LANDMARKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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× · 2018–2024 · $253k · revenue +123%
- TWTHE WORKS6× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK7× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- ISILLINOIS STATE UNIV WCBU-FMone grant, 2022 · $7k
- MMITone grant, 2022 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA KUSCone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
The grpm exists to be a living monument of artifacts, ideas and stories told through exhibitions, events, and educational programming designed to inspire, motivate and celebrate our human bond. we enrich the lives of our community through…
The museum of the great plains collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits historical material relevant to the great plains of north america, fostering research into the region in order to increase knowledge of its history and to make…
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To accelerate preserving and reusing significant places statewide to foster healthy, livable and thriving communities.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trust for Public Land and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 77 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 THE WORKS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK ↗
- Who funds TOWERSIDE INNOVATION DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds SPRINGDALE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL ACTORS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEECH LAKE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD THE HANNA CITY TRAIL ↗
- Who funds LOOK ITS MY BOOK ↗
- Who funds Move2Learn ↗
- Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEELS O' TIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KEEP PEORIA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds Amherst County Museum & Historical ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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 · Gilmore Foundation · Share Foundation · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rucker Family 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.
- American Hiking Society — 14% 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.