About United Way of Pekin
Help meet local health and human-care needs in the Pekin community; support both traditional agencies and organizations addressing emerging community needs.
Focus Areas
Healthy CommunitiesYouth OpportunityFinancial SecurityCommunity Resiliency
Funding Style
general operating supportunrestricted supportorganizational sustainabilitycapacity sustaining
Topics
operational costsadministrative expensesstaff salariesfacility and overhead
About United Way of Pekin
United Way of Pekin centers its grantmaking on local health and human-care needs in the Pekin community, with support extending to both traditional agencies and organizations responding to emerging community needs. The recent record shows a steady emphasis on operating support rather than project-only funding, with grants repeatedly directed toward the staffing, facilities, and overhead that keep organizations running. That pattern appears across multiple years and across a small set of recurring partners. Among the largest recent awards, the foundation gave $53,000 to the Salvation Army in Peoria for operating expenses and $52,000 to the Center for Prevention of Abuse in Peoria for the same purpose. It also supported the Boys & Girls Club of Pekin with $45,000 for operating expenses, reinforcing its connection to organizations serving Pekin residents directly. Other repeated recipients include Pekin YWCA, Tcrc Inc, Pekin Outreach Initiative, and Miller Senior Center, which shows a grantmaking approach built around sustaining local service capacity over time.
What United Way of Pekin Funds
The foundation’s stated focus areas include Healthy Communities, Youth Opportunity, Financial Security, and Community Resiliency, and its recent grants align closely with that mix. In youth-serving work, it gave $25,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of Pekin in 2025 for operating expenses, following earlier support of $45,000 in 2023 and $24,996 in 2024. For community safety and family support, the foundation awarded $40,000 to Casa in Peoria for operating expenses and later provided $25,000 in 2025. It also gave $17,500 to Family Core in 2023 and $12,500 in 2025, both for operating expenses. Health-related and crisis-response organizations also appear in the record, including $40,000 to the Center for Prevention of Abuse in 2025 and $10,000 to Neighborhood House in Peoria in 2025, each for operating expenses.
How United Way of Pekin Gives
Typical awards cluster in the low tens of thousands: the 25th percentile is $12,994, the median is $21,744, and the 75th percentile is $35,496. The recent list shows repeated support to the same organizations across 2023, 2024, and 2025, indicating ongoing relationships rather than one-time gifts. The foundation is operating in a local grantmaking mode, with funding directed to organizations in Illinois and with a consistent emphasis on unrestricted operating support, administrative expenses, staff salaries, facility costs, and overhead.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$250K
Total Assets
$466K
Total Revenue
$329K
Total Expenses
$379K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $13K and $35K, with a median of $22K.
25th Percentile
$13K
Median
$22K
75th Percentile
$35K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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