· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $37,500 |
| CASA | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PEKIN | $25,000 |
| TCRC INC | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Pekin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Pekin. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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