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United Way of Pekin

The mission of both the national united way and the UNITED WAY OF PEKIN is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.

$248k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$23,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$466k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of Pekin funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCommunity ImprovementYouth Development
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$250k0%
FY202411$240k0%
FY202313$356k8%
FY202214$336k7%
FY202114$339k7%
FY202014$351k0%
FY201914$351k7%
FY201814$340kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$1.5MYouth Development$391kCrime & Legal$237kHealth$210kFood & Nutrition$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$73kHousing & Shelter$10kCommunity Improvement$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$391,0268n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Pekin$367,367816%
Young Women's Christian Association of Pekin$364,30185%
The Center for Prevention of Abuse$352,36781%
St Francis Community Clinic$210,1438n/a
Pekin Park District$157,7918n/a
Counseling and Family Services Inc Dba Familycore$141,71780%
Pekin Outreach Initiative$109,057720%
Casa of the Tenth Judicial Circuit$99,99644%
Friends of Tazewell County Cac$82,996785%
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Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Pekin supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Club of Pekin: $367,367 over 8y, 16% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Pekin: $364,301 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetThe Center for Prevention of Abuse: $352,367 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCounseling and Family Services Inc Dba Familycore: $141,717 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPekin Outreach Initiative: $109,057 over 7y, 20% of budgetCasa of the Tenth Judicial Circuit: $99,996 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetFriends of Tazewell County Cac: $82,996 over 7y, 85% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $73,206 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPekin Mobile Diner Inc: $65,831 over 7y, 21% of budgetPrairie State Legal Services Inc: $54,129 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Youth and Family Solutions: $35,332 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWd Boyce Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: $17,823 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHeart of Illinois Big Brothers Big Sisters: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Heart of Illinois United Way IncIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · Peoria Area Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Cakora Family Charitable Trust · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About United Way of Pekin

How much does United Way of Pekin give?
United Way of Pekin reported 11 grants totaling $248,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Pekin fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (57%), Youth Development (15%), Crime & Legal (9%).
Who are United Way of Pekin's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($391k), Boys and Girls Club of Pekin ($367k), Young Women's Christian Association of Pekin ($364k).
Does United Way of Pekin fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Pekin?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heart of Illinois United Way Inc, Peoria Area Community Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
Where is United Way of Pekin based?
United Way of Pekin is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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