· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +594%
- CUCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ANGEL PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 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 ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ahlstrand Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ahlstrand Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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