· Private foundation
The Bielfeldt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARLE HEALTH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY | $100,000 |
| EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $55,000 |
| GREATER PEORIA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY | $45,000 |
| PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM | $42,000 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT | $34,500 |
| CENTRAL ILLINOIS CASA | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| PEORIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| THE PEORIA PLAYHOUSE | $2,000 |
| PEORIA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $2,000 |
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, $7k) 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 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Bielfeldt Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- BUBRADLEY UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +5%
- PRPeoria Riverfront Museum5× · 2020–2024 · $154k · revenue +89%
- DCDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP2× · 2021–2022 · $95k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WBWD BOYCE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue -28%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +23%
- SASALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTSone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 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…
To be an advocate of agriculture through leadership and education.
Girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
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…
The community foundation of central illinois will make a sustainable philanthropic impact in our community through visible leadership in connecting people who care with causes that matter.
The credit union has not adopted a mission statement.
To assist our members in the management of their financial well-being by providing loans, savings accounts, and other financial institution services in a friendly and professional manner.
Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…
To receive and distribute philanthropic gifts that provide financial assistance in the payment of tuition for qualified students attending illinois central college.
The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoria Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Peoria Riverfront Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Peoria Riverfront Museum ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER PEORIA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PEORIA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PEORIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WD BOYCE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Gilmore Foundation · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Rex and Nelle Jackson Foundation · Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust · Cla Foundation · Duane a Cullinan Memorial Trust · The Miles C Hauter 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 The Bielfeldt 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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