Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust far exceeded its grantmaking annual average with $27.7 million awarded so far in the year of COVID-19, exceeding its typical outreach by as much as $7 million.
The Trust designated its COVID-19 emergency response grants as unrestricted, meaning grantees had discretion and flexibility to use the funds however they needed.
Peoria-based Theater Works benefited from this, receiving $50,000 that helped the theater mount its hugely successful interactive, immersive production of “Curiouser & Curiouser.”
