Hedden Charitable Trust
Pekin, IL · EIN 47-6904267. Reported 34 grants totalling $208,700 to 34 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Hedden 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $9,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $21,200. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geffrey Gichure Af Inland Church Ke | Kijabe, Central | $21,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cru | Orlando, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Needs Agency | Chillicothe, IL | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Commission Every Nation | Kerrville, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Once in a Lifetime | Plano, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Living Alternatives | Pekin, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peoria Area Youth for Christ | Peoria, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Christian Center | Peoria, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ask and Ye Shall Receive | Bartonville, IL | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brazil Gospel Fellowship Mission | Springfield, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Resonate Global Mission | Grand Rapids, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bible Telling | Bloomington, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cadre Ministries | Sycamore, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midwest Food Bank | Peoria, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pekin Union Mission | Pekin, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peoria Christian School | Peoria, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| River City Mission | Paducah, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Victory Baptist Church | Fort Frances, Ontario | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wbnh Central Il Radio Fellowship | Pekin, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wcic Radio | Peoria, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asm Audio Scripture Ministry | Holland, MI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bible Baptist Church | Farmington, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Focus on the Family | Colorado Springs, CO | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Great Oaks | Lacon, IL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peoria Rescue Ministry | Peoria, IL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Frontier Missions | Clarkston, GA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Flutes for Vets | Mcnabb, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rhma | Morton, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | Memphis, TN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army | Pekin, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seven Circles Heritage Center | Edwards, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Xponent Ministries | Plano, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundations Church | Loveland, CO | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peoria FCA | Kansas City, MO | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
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.
- Midwest Food Bank
Emergency FoodServices for the Poor - Focus on the Family
Family and Individual Services - Seven Circles Heritage Center
Native American Cultural & Historical
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 8 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 54% 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.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
- 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.
- 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 Hedden 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: 904 Easling Court, Pekin, IL, 61554. 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.
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