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Gloyd Family Foundation

Peoria, IL · EIN 36-4140796. Reported 140 grants totalling $1,008,100 to 37 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,008,100granted, 2021-2025
37recipients, as named on its returns
93%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,006,618assets, 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. Gloyd Family Foundation 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
53 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
37 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
38 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Westminster Presbyterian ChurchRockford, IL$170,000552025
RosecranceRockford, IL$102,000552025
Family Peace CenterRockford, IL$71,000552025
Carpenter PlaceRockford, IL$70,000552025
Crusader Comm HealthRockford, IL$55,000552025
Midway Village MuseumRockford, IL$55,000552025
Salvation ArmyRockford, IL$53,000552025
Kfact IncRockford, IL$46,000552025
Rockford Area Habitat for HumanityRockford, IL$45,000552025
United WayRockford, IL$38,000552025
Literacy CouncilRockford, IL$31,500552025
Boys and Girls ClubRockford, IL$25,000552025
Northern Illinois HospiceRockford, IL$25,000552025
Lifescape Comm ServRockford, IL$22,000552025
Rockford Day NurseryRockford, IL$22,000332023
Visiting Nurse AssocRockford, IL$20,000442024
Swedish American HospitalRockford, IL$19,000222022
CoronadoRockford, IL$16,000552025
YMCARockford, IL$15,500552025
Klehm Arboretum and Botanic GardenRockford, IL$12,500552025
Rockford Symphony OrchestraRockford, IL$12,500552025
Rock River Valley PantryRockford, IL$12,000112025
CASARockford, IL$10,000442024
Goldie Floberg HospiceRockford, IL$10,000222024
Northern Illinois Food BankRockford, IL$9,000112024
Burpee MuseumRockford, IL$7,000552025
Girl ScoutsRockford, IL$7,000552025
Discovery CenterRockford, IL$6,500552025
Rockford Area Arts CouncilRockford, IL$5,000112025
Rockford Art MuseumRockford, IL$5,000552025
Severson Dells Nature CenterRockford, IL$5,000552025
Center for Sight and HearingRockford, IL$2,500112024
Junior Achievement of Central IllinoisEast Peoria, IL$1,000222025
K CancerMachesney, IL$1,000112023
Blackhawk Area Council Boy ScoutsRockford, IL$500112022
Econ IllinoisLasalle, IL$500112021
Rockford Park DistrictRockford, IL$100112024

29 of 37 (78%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 93%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 52 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
16 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Health Care
7 grants
Environment
6 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Religion
5 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202128$230,000$5,000
202228$180,000$5,000
202328$184,000$5,000
202430$205,100$5,000
202526$209,000$5,000

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

Rockford, IL
$1.0M
Machesney, IL
$1K
East Peoria, IL
$1K
Lasalle, IL
$500

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Community Foundation of Northern Il10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsBergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation XXXXX20089 shared recipientsThe Kjellstrom Family Foundation9 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 Gloyd Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 6915 N Knoxville, Peoria, IL, 61614. 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 36-4140796 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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