· Community foundation
Boone County Community Foundation
Solicit funds from community members who wish to provide financial assistance to charitable organizations and activities in the boone county community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL DONATIONS LESS THAN 5000 | $138,198 |
| BOONE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $79,789 |
| BELVIDERE PARK DISTRICT | $48,500 |
| PARKSIDE MANOR | $10,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +60% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- BCBoone County Conservation District6× · 2018–2024 · $549k
- ADALL DONATIONS LESS THAN 50004× · 2021–2024 · $363k
- BFBELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA2× · 2020–2021 · $36k · revenue -9%
Funded once
- BCBOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +74%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -21%
- ZEZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $9k
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.
To promote independence and provide enriching opportunities for older adults in boone county.
Services for the developmentally disabled
To enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in boone county
Housing and other services provided to developmentally disabled individuals to promote their ability to function as independently as possible.
The purpose of the brooke county committee on aging is to promote services that will enhance the health, safety, and welfare of the senior population in its planning and service area, and serve as the primary agency within the local…
The organization seeks to provide residential services for disabled adults and children, as well as behavioral health, regular work and supported employment services for these disabled individuals. additionally, developmental training and…
To provide services for senior citizens in knox county
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.
The agency provides transportation services for the elderly, disabled, and general public.
Organize and operate the boone county fair
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boone County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 BELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARKSIDE MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NO IL ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO 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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Boone County Community 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.