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Arthur and Gesena Griffin Trust Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of ARTHUR AND GESENA GRIFFIN TRUST YELLOW CARDINAL ADVISORY GROUP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MARTINTON FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| IROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| IROQUOIS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| PRAIRIE STATES CHRISTIAN CAMP | $10,000 |
| IROQUOIS CO CUST 9 ACADEMIC FOUNDA | $7,500 |
| PRAIRIE DELLS CHURCH RESTORATION | $6,000 |
| CRESCENT IROQUOIS EMS | $5,500 |
| OPTIONS CENTER | $5,000 |
| PRAIRIE STATES LEGAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SHELDON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SHELDON AREA FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| FOOD FROM THE HEART | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- PSPRAIRIE STATE CHRISTIAN SERVICE CAMP6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +20% · 34% of their budget
- TATHE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +37%
- IMIROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME4× · 2022–2025 · $36k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- WFWATSEKA FIRE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- WWWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
The mission of the Illinois Valley Senior Center (IVSC) is to serve as a social outlet for senior citizens, age 55 or older, and their spouse or significant other; encourage friendship between IVSC members and introduce senior newcomers to…
The society's mission is to collect preserve and disseminate information related to the history of rock island county illinois
The irha is currently focusing on a number of critical areas that impact access to quality health care in rural il, including ems, mental health, and serving the citizens of rural il.
To improve net income of our farming families, improve the economic well being of our members, and promote a positive image for the agriculture community.
To provide job training and work opportunity for disabled individuals in iron county, missouri.
The council is a not for profit organization devoted to promoting, within the territory covered by charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america in accordance with the congressional program, the ability of boys, young…
The mission of promise community health center is to provide accessible, holistic health care that adapts to the needs of the community to improve the wellbeing of all persons.
It is the mission of Area Residential Care to empower people with intellectual disabilities to achieve their highest quality of life.
The Arc of Illinois is committed to empowering persons with disabilities to achieve full participation in community life through informed choices.
Rescue and rehoming of German Shorthaired Pointers
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Iroquois County and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Youth Center 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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 10% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
12 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. 12 of the 48 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 PRAIRIE STATE CHRISTIAN SERVICE CAMP ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds IROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME ↗
- Who funds ABRA OF SHELDON ↗
- Who funds IROQUOIS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IROQUOIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICES OF IROQUOIS COUN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
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: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Mary Helen Roberts Trust · Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096 · Paul & Norma Schaumburg Charitable · Freed Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Arthur and Gesena Griffin Trust Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group 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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