· Private foundation
The Central Bancshares Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Central Bancshares Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greater Muscatine, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Central Bancshares Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $45k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k13 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Galesburg Community School District | $16,000 |
| The Orpheum Theater | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Discovery Depot | $5,000 |
| Discovery Depot | $3,000 |
| The Orpheum Theatre | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Knox College | $1,000 |
| Galesburg Firefighters Association | $1,000 |
| Western IL Works | $1,000 |
| Galesburg Area Chamber of Commerce | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Safe Harbor Family Crisis Center | $1,000 |
| Brimfield CUSD #309 | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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
6 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. 6 of the 16 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Central Bancshares Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Central Bancshares Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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