· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $37,500 |
| TCRC INC | $25,000 |
| CASA | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PEKIN | $25,000 |
| PEKIN OUTREACH INITIATIVE | $23,500 |
| MILLER SENIOR CENTER | $21,000 |
| PEKIN YWCA | $18,500 |
| FAMILY CORE | $12,500 |
| TAZEWELL CO CHILDRENS ADVOCACY | $12,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $579k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PEKIN8× · 2018–2025 · $367k · revenue +8%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE8× · 2018–2025 · $352k · revenue +39%
- CACOUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE8× · 2018–2025 · $142k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- HOHEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +43%
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.
Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
The trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…
Provide legal services for children in area.
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
To promptly and efficiently promote and provide a wide array of programs to meet the needs of the elderly, their families and those who care for them in a confidential and professional manner.
The mission of april house is to decrease the incidence of child sexual abuse and trauma by brining help systems together to intervene in a humane and responsive manner.
The Youth Service Bureau provides services to at-risk youth who are, or are at risk of becoming, runaway, abused, neglected and/or homeless. Services are also available for their family members.
Supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
Provide court appointed advocates for children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Youth and Family Solutions and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Tazewell County Cac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PEKIN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PEKIN ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds St Francis Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE ↗
- Who funds PEKIN OUTREACH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TAZEWELL COUNTY CAC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PEKIN MOBILE DINER INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CIVIC OUTREACH FOR THE PEKIN AREA CHURCH ↗
- Who funds WD BOYCE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
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.
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
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 United Way of Pekin 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.