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Ann O'donnell Trumbull Perpetual Charitable Trust

Peoria, IL · EIN 30-1111995. Reported 87 grants totalling $1,342,056 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$7,500median grant
$1,342,056granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
91%of grantees funded again the next year
$12.3Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Ann O'donnell Trumbull Perpetual Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,750 and $25,000; the smallest was $1,250 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
24 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Bradley UniversityPeoria, IL$254,056442024
Midwest Food BankPeoria, IL$150,000442024
Lacon Community CenterLacon, IL$100,000442024
Salvation ArmyPeoria, IL$100,000222022
Lacon Food PantryLacon, IL$75,000222022
Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL$62,500332024
Lewis UniversityRomeoville, IL$60,000442024
Lacon Sparland Emergency AmbulanceLacon, IL$55,000332024
Koinonia Lacon Food PantryLacon, IL$50,000222024
St Jude Childrens Research HospMemphis, TN$50,000222022
Olivet Nazarene UniversityBourbonnnais, IL$46,000442024
Great Oaks CampLacon, IL$40,000222022
Youth for Christ - Marshall CountyPeoria, IL$40,000222022
Illinois Central CollegeEast Peoria, IL$30,750442024
St Jude Runners AssociationPeoria, IL$25,000112024
North Park UniversityChicago, IL$22,500442024
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityBloomington, IL$20,000332024
Michigan Tech UniversityHoughton, MI$20,000222024
Carthage CollegeKenosha, WI$18,750332024
Millikin UniversityDecatur, IL$18,750332024
Iowa State UniversityAmes, IA$17,500442024
Michigan Technological UniversityHoughton, MI$15,000222022
Western Illinois UniversityMacomb, IL$13,750332024
University of IllinoisChampaign, IL$12,500442024
Rockford UniversityRockford, IL$11,250222024
Illinois Valley Comm CollegeOglesby, IL$7,500222024
Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale, IL$5,000112024
Northern Il UniversityDekalb, IL$3,750112024
University of FloridaGainesville, FL$3,750222024
Loras CollegeDubuque, IA$2,500112023
North Central CollegeNaperville, IL$2,500112024
University of KansasLawrence, KS$2,500112024
Valparaiso UniversityValparaiso, IN$2,500222024
Heartland Community CollegeNormal, IL$1,250112024
Monmouth CollegeMonmouth, IL$1,250112024
Texas Christian UniversityFort Worth, TX$1,250112023

27 of 36 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 91%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
37 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Religion
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$345,375$20,000
202221$403,125$14,000
202323$263,806$7,500
202428$329,750$6,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 90% of this one's giving went to organizations in Illinois. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Illinois
$1.2M
Tennessee
$50K
Michigan
$35K
Iowa
$20K
Wisconsin
$19K
Florida
$4K
Indiana
$2K
Kansas
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America13 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ann O'donnell Trumbull Perpetual Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1100 N Institute Place, Peoria, IL, 61606. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 30-1111995 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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