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The Miles C Hauter Foundation

Peoria, IL · EIN 04-3596344. Reported 57 grants totalling $1,080,798 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$20,000median grant
$1,080,798granted, 2021-2024
22organizations funded
92%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,880,348assets, 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. The Miles C Hauter 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 $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $8,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $60,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
17 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 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
South Side MissionPeoria, IL$165,000442024
Easter SealsPeoria, IL$140,000442024
Sun FoundationWashburn, IL$101,500442024
Peoria Promise FoundationPeoria, IL$100,000442024
Christian CenterPeoria, IL$85,000442024
Peoria Friendship HousePeoria, IL$78,280442024
Salvation ArmyPeoria, IL$54,500442024
Midwest Food BankMorton, IL$54,000332024
Peoria GrownPeoria, IL$40,000222024
Sisters of St Francis of Immaculate ConceptionWest Peoria, IL$35,482442024
Central Illinois Ctr for Blind & Visually ImpairedPeoria, IL$34,000332024
Dream Center PeoriaPeoria, IL$30,000112021
Oakridge Outdoor FoundationMackinaw, IL$30,000112024
Together We PlayPeoria, IL$29,239112022
ValleylifePhoenix, AZ$20,256442024
Heart of Illinois HarvestPeoria, IL$20,000222022
Lifeline PilotsPeoria, IL$20,000222024
Dvi Charitable FoundationPeoria, IL$15,000222024
Peoria Area Water WizardsPeoria, IL$9,044112023
Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesOak Brook, IL$8,000112022
Hooked on FishingEast Peoria, IL$6,497112024
Friends of Peoria Public LibraryPeoria, IL$5,000112022

15 of 22 (68%) 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 92%, 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 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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
9 grants
Community Improvement
8 grants
Employment
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202112$256,522$22,500
202215$260,973$10,000
202314$286,476$16,000
202416$276,827$15,000

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. 98% 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
$1.1M
Arizona
$20K

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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.

Peoria Area Community Foundation6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc4 shared recipientsGilmore Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,000. 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 The Miles C Hauter Foundation'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: 5823 N Forest Park Drive, 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 04-3596344 · 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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