· Private foundation
Thomas and Patricia Pelger Family Charitable 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC | $75,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARISH | $46,100 |
| MIDTOWN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $32,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $32,000 |
| PEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION | $28,521 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $27,600 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $12,000 |
| DANDELION HOUSE | $12,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PEORIA COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DIOCESE OF PEORIA | $9,000 |
| CATERPILLAR FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE OHRA CENTER | $7,000 |
| ASHLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +25%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PEORIA COUNCIL3× · 2021–2025 · $71k · revenue +155%
- SCSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES5× · 2017–2021 · $64k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN VIANEY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CDCOLEGIO DE STA RITA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ASAPOSTOLIC SISTERS OF SAINT JOHNone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 54 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 Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ↗
- Who funds PEORIA PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PEORIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DANDELION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN KIDS - UGANDA ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Caterpillar Foundation ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Chubb Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas and Patricia Pelger Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Patricia Pelger Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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