Illinois · 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.
- $168k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $64,045
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Rucker Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $167k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $103k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $127k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $116k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $125k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $130k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $112k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peoria Riverfront Museum | $253,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Works | $106,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Friends of Wildlife Prairie Park | $90,545 | 7 | 1% |
| Towerside Innovation District | $40,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Springdale Historic Preservation Foundation | $28,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Classical Actors Ensemble | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bradley University | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Leech Lake Area Inc | $12,138 | 3 | 1% |
| Peoria Historical Society | $10,772 | 6 | 1% |
| Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rucker Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Rucker Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Rucker Family Charitable Trust give?
- Rucker Family Charitable Trust reported 29 grants totaling $167,988 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Rucker Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Environment (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are Rucker Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Peoria Riverfront Museum ($253k), The Works ($106k), Friends of Wildlife Prairie Park ($91k).
- Does Rucker Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rucker Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rucker Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Peoria Area Community Foundation, Gilmore Foundation, Share Foundation.
- Where is Rucker Family Charitable Trust based?
- Rucker Family Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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