· Private foundation
The Providence Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ALAH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OPERATION HONOR GUARD | $12,500 |
| FIT-2-SERVE | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| PAWPRINT MINISTRIES NFP | $10,000 |
| SULLIVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JERSEY CUSD 100 | $8,000 |
| FARMWAY | $7,500 |
| SHELBYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $5,000 |
| SALEM HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 53 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 Phokos NFP ↗
- Who funds Pawprint Ministries NFP ↗
- Who funds Sullivan Community Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SKELETON CREW ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds SHELBYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARM WAY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Fit-2-Serve Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR LEGACY OF LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HEARTS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE - ON THE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Providence Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Providence Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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