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Share Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORTON APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $39,640 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $37,000 |
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $20,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $10,300 |
| THE LAKOU NFP | $10,000 |
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF PLANTATION | $10,000 |
| SOLID ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| GATEWAY WOODS | $7,500 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $5,090 |
| PATHWAY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| SOUTH SIDE MISSION | $5,000 |
| MORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EASTER SEALS | $5,000 |
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES | $4,000 |
| LOVING SHEPHERD MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
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.
57 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $109k · revenue +100%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP6× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +143%
- TLTHE LAKOU NFP5× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $22k
- FLFT LAUDERDALE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- AGAMAZING GRACE MISSIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
The mission of youth for christ - peoria area is to communicate the life-changing message of jesus christ to every young person.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Lifesong seeks to promote the gospel of jesus christ through caring for orphans, supporting and educating children through global christian orphan care ministries, serving christian adoptive families, and providing christian foster care…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Mid-america reformed seminary seeks to serve the church by preparing students for gospel ministry as pastors, or those whose service to the church may be enhanced by theological education.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apostolic Christian Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Central Illinois Memorial Kidney Fund. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 98 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 LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds THE LAKOU NFP ↗
- Who funds MORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Peoria Riverfront Museum ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 55 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WE TRUST IN HIM ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MORTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ILLINOIS MEMORIAL KIDNEY FUND ↗
- Who funds BEREAN PRISON MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Hands of Love Ministry ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI TRI-COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
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 · Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation · Melvin R Baum Private Foundation Inc · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Morton Community Foundation · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · His First Foundation % John S Wieland · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · Prairie Christian Foundation · Peoria Hospitals Mobile Medical Services D/B/A Adv Medical Trans of Central Il · Lorene and Ben Maibach 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 Share Foundation 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.
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.
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