· Private foundation
Atwood Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $895k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $2,139,956 |
| WINNEBAGO COUNTRY FOREST PRESERVE | $1,515,989 |
| YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $140,000 |
| KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| ROCKFORD ROTARY CHARITABLE ASSOC | $110,000 |
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER | $110,000 |
| BARBARA OLSEN CNTR OF HOPE | $110,000 |
| NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS | $50,000 |
| WESLEY WILLOWS | $50,000 |
| ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BURPEE MUSEUM OF NAT HISTORY | $10,000 |
| THE HOWARD CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $2.2M · revenue +55% · 59% of their budget
- RUROCKFORD UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +5%
- WWWESLEY WILLOWS2× · 2017–2018 · $51k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- WCWINNEBAGO COUNTRY FARM BUREAU FNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Vision statement: enhance economic vitality in the rockford region by providing access to post-secondary education for all rockford public school graduates. - mission statement: remove financial barriers by offering full-tuition…
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 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…
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.
Our purpose is to provide financial services to our members with competitive rates while maintaining our financial stability.
The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region
To empower our students to become global leaders who connect, explore, and create through real-world learning experiences.
Rocky mountain college educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.
The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region
Rockford area community endowment is a local foundation committed to assisting rockford area residents, businesses, government and volunteer organizations to expand opportunities locally. race was founded in 1964.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford University and the most unlike its peers is Natural Land Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD ROTARY CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESLEY WILLOWS ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON GARDENS ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP NORTHERN ILLINOIS BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Goddard Family Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeff and Shelley Shinn Foundation · Nancy Nichols Olson 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 Atwood 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.