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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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2018
16
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Environment$3.9MHuman Services$321kEducation$235kHealth$155kYouth Development$110kArts & Culture$61kSocial Science$12kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2018 · 16 grants

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
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 13%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $140k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 11 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$2.9M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+99%

Still filing today

73%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18
EnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • RP
    ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2.2M · revenue +55% · 59% of their budget
  • RU
    ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +5%
  • WW
    WESLEY WILLOWS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $51k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • WC
    WINNEBAGO COUNTRY FARM BUREAU FND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Transform Rockford
Community Improvement
2
Rockford Promise

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…

Education
3
Rockford Christian Education Association

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

Education
4
The Rockford Institute

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…

5
Rockford Day Nursery

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.

Human Services
6
Rockford Municipal Employees Credit Union

Our purpose is to provide financial services to our members with competitive rates while maintaining our financial stability.

7
Rockford Area Economic Development Council Inc

The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region

8
Rockford Charter School Organization

To empower our students to become global leaders who connect, explore, and create through real-world learning experiences.

Education
9
Rocky Mountain College

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.

Education
10
Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives

The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region

Community Improvement
11
Rockford Area Community Endowment

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.

Philanthropy
12
Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $2,199,956 · EnvironmentROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATIONNATURAL LAND INSTITUTE — $110,000 · Environment+2 more — $60,000 · EnvironmentWINNEBAGO COUNTRY FOREST PRESERVE — $1,515,989 · OtherWINNEBAGO COUNTRY FOREST PRESERVEBARBARA OLSEN CNTR OF HOPE — $135,000 · OtherBARBARA OLSEN CNTR OF HOPEKEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $130,000 · OtherKEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLNORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER — $120,000 · OtherNORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER+7 more — $82,000 · OtherYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $140,000 · Human ServicesROCKFORD ROTARY CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION — $110,000 · Community ImprovementROCKFORD UNIVERSITY — $65,000 · EducationROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationWESLEY WILLOWS — $51,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterROCKFORD ART MUSEUM — $51,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$2,369,956Other$1,982,989Human Services$140,000Community Improvement$110,000Education$105,000Housing & Shelter$52,000Arts & Culture$51,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $2,199,956 over 2y, 59% of budgetYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $140,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $130,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNATURAL LAND INSTITUTE — $110,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetROCKFORD UNIVERSITY — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY WILLOWS — $51,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROCKFORD ART MUSEUM — $51,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetANDERSON GARDENS — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKEEP NORTHERN ILLINOIS BEAUTIFUL — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation of Northern ILIL26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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