· Private foundation
The Providence Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOKOS NFP | $50,000 |
| ARTHUR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ALAH | $15,000 |
| OPERATION HONOR GUARD | $12,500 |
| SULLIVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PAWPRINT MINISTRIES NFP | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| FIT-2-SERVE | $10,000 |
| JERSEY CUSD 100 | $8,000 |
| FARMWAY | $7,500 |
| SULLIVAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ARTHUR FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 22 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- PMPawprint Ministries NFP3× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +22%
- SCSullivan Community Education Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +27% · 35% of their budget
- FWFARM WAY SANCTUARY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- VOVETERANS OF LOG BASE SEITZone grant, 2023 · $20k
- SCSKELETON CREW ADVENTURESone grant, 2023 · $15k
- WSWSS SPORTSBACKERS CLUB INCone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Muddy Paws Farm Rescue provides a loving forever home to farm animals who are neglected, abused, bound for slaughter, or otherwise need a new forever home.
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
Prevention of cruelty to animals.
The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.
The Ark is committed to providing compassionate care and placement of homeless animals, alleviating overpopulation of companion animals by promoting low cost spay/neuter programs, and promoting and improving the welfare of all animals…
Rescue, care, and adoption services for pets
Equine sanctuary. accepts elder equines in need of rehabilitation and/or retirement.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
To find a safe, loving and appropriate home for every homeless pet, including those with special needs or challenges. PAHS strives to treat, heal, and provide optimal well-being for the animals in their care.
The organization was founded to provide shelter and care for mistreated or abandoned horses. they provide shelter, food and veterinary services for these animals until a suitable home can be found. as a secondary service, they provide…
To provide care for animals that are abused and need homes
To rescue, rehabilitate, foster and adopt farmed animals and give them the life that they deserve. to provide food, shelter and medical to abandon animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moultrie-Douglas County Fair Association. 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 14 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 53 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 Phokos NFP ↗
- Who funds Pawprint Ministries NFP ↗
- Who funds Sullivan Community Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHELBYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKELETON CREW ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds FARM WAY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Fit-2-Serve Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR LEGACY OF LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HEARTS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE - ON THE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
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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 Providence 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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