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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.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$461kHuman Services$194kInternational$157kFood & Nutrition$90kArts & Culture$75kPhilanthropy$38kHealth$33kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$409k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORTON APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH$39,640
SALVATION ARMY$37,000
LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS$20,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK$10,300
APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF PLANTATION$10,000
THE LAKOU NFP$10,000
GATEWAY WOODS$7,500
SOLID ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GATEWAY WOODS: $8k → 12%TEAM 224: $3k → 12%GATEWAY WOODS: $5k → 12%GATEWAY WOODS: $3k → 12%GATEWAY WOODS: $3k → 12%GATEWAY WOODS: $2k → 12%GATEWAY WOODS: $1k → 12%APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS: $5k → 9%APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS: $4k → 9%APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS: $3k → 9%APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS: $1k → 9%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $14k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $9k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $8k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $7k → 14%WE TRUST IN HIM: $3k → 14%WE TRUST IN HIM: $3k → 14%WE TRUST IN HIM: $3k → 14%PATHWAY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%PATHWAY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%THE PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THE PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
IN
AZ
KS
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 57 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
34

Total granted

$1.0M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+53%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $109k · revenue +100%
  • MF
    MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP
    6× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +143%
  • TL
    THE LAKOU NFP
    5× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
  • FL
    FT LAUDERDALE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • AG
    AMAZING GRACE MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

1
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
2
Youth for Christ - Peoria Area

The mission of youth for christ - peoria area is to communicate the life-changing message of jesus christ to every young person.

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3
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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4
Lifesong Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
6
Mid-America Reformed Seminary

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.

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7
Christian Care Mesa Ii Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
8
Methodist Medical Center of Illinois

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
9
Christian Care Surprise Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
10
Christian Care Mesa Iii

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve

Housing & Shelter
11
Christian Care Mesa Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Human Services
12
Financial Planning Ministry

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apostolic Christian Children's Home Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $219,280 · OtherAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY: $114,350 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF MORTON IL: $82,200 · OtherAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF MORTON IL+67 more: $314,682 · Other+67 moreMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $57,550 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD …PATHWAY MINISTRIES: $24,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY MINIS…APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesAPOSTOLIC CHR…APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesAPOSTOLIC CHR…THE PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE PENGUIN P…WE TRUST IN HIM: $7,500 · Human ServicesWE TRUST IN H…+1 more: $2,623 · Human ServicesLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $109,000 · InternationalLIFESONG FO…+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalTHE LAKOU NFP: $37,500 · EducationVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $14,643 · Education+2 more: $1,809 · EducationDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $9,000 · ReligionISAIAH 55 MINISTRIES: $8,500 · ReligionAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES: $8,000 · ReligionBEREAN PRISON MINISTRY INC: $5,500 · ReligionHands of Love Ministry: $5,250 · ReligionMIO Frontiers: $5,000 · ReligionRURAL HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · ReligionMORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,500 · PhilanthropyMITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC: $4,560 · PhilanthropyPeoria Riverfront Museum: $14,500 · Arts & CultureMORTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $6,500 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION: $5,250 · Arts & CultureWHEELS O' TIME MUSEUM: $3,750 · Arts & CultureSPRINGDALE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$730,512Human Services$134,173International$111,500Education$53,952Religion$45,250Philanthropy$37,060Arts & Culture$33,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $109,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $57,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKOU NFP: $37,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPATHWAY MINISTRIES: $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $14,643 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeoria Riverfront Museum: $14,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetISAIAH 55 MINISTRIES: $8,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWE TRUST IN HIM: $7,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMORTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $6,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetCENTRAL ILLINOIS MEMORIAL KIDNEY FUND: $6,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBEREAN PRISON MINISTRY INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHands of Love Ministry: $5,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI TRI-COUNTY ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES INC: $4,560 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWHEELS O' TIME MUSEUM: $3,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGDALE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM 224 INC: $2,623 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRURAL GOSPEL & MEDICAL MISSIONS OF INDIA: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWE CARE INC OF MORTON: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEORIA WOMEN'S CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL TUITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP OF CHAMPIONS USA LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ILLINOIS RIDING THERAPY INC: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION: $809 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PENGUIN PROJECT FOUNDATION 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 ILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Hands of Love Ministry ↗
  • Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗

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…Gilmore FoundationOtto Baum Company Inc…Melvin R Baum Private…Barton Family Foundat…Morton Community Foun…Doug and Diane Oberhe…His First Foundation …Heart of Illinois Uni…Prairie Christian Fou…Peoria Hospitals Mobi…Lorene and Ben Maibac…
Peoria Area Community FoundationIL28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Share Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Share Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Share Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Share Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 98 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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