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Ahlstrand Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $12,804 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER | $12,500 |
| LONGBOAT ISLAND CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| ROCKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,558 |
| ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM | $2,875 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| THE LAURENT HOUSE | $1,217 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $1,026 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF ROCKFORD | $1,000 |
| HOOVER HOPE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER | $520 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RPROCKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +90%
- RRROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +10%
- RRROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES5× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- RPROCKFORD PARK DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $2k
- LDLIFE DECISIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +206%
- CUCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ANGEL PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…
To empower our students to become global leaders who connect, explore, and create through real-world learning experiences.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
To provide quality, affordable, accessible, child care in a developmentally appropriate learning environment. the program is committed to the holistic development of the individual child through a broad range of educational programs, which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Life Decisions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOPE REIGNS RANCH ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds THE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PUPPY RESCUE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE DECISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Mill Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Jeff and Shelley Shinn Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ahlstrand Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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