· Private foundation
The Bielfeldt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| THE PEORIA PLAYHOUSE | $2,000 |
| PEORIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| PEORIA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The Bielfeldt Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 89%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -21%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +23%
- SASALVATION ARMY TREE OF LIGHTSone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bielfeldt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bielfeldt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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