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Community Foundation of Grundy County

Provide a vision for grundy county and the surrounding area in order to preserve and enhance our quality of life.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$641k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$720kReligion$402kArts & Culture$200kMembership Benefit$164kPublic Benefit$163kCommunity Improvement$159kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $1,789,338, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,018,689 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $229,351 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $288k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $506k
  • $250k+2 grants · $911k
$10,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORRIS HOSPITAL AUXILIARY & FOUNDATION$641,071
GRUNDY EUNOIA WELLNESS CENTER$269,945
CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$202,030
MORRIS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY$116,151
CITY OF MORRIS$110,500
MORRIS HOSPITAL YMCA$77,625
VILLAGE OF MINOOKA$43,000
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH$35,000
MINOOKA CHSD 111$28,000
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND$22,000
UNITED WAY OF GRUNDY COUNTY$15,809
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY$14,500
SPECIAL CONNECTIONS OF GRUNDY COUNTY$13,270
BEANS-AND-BITES$13,050
WE CARE OF GC$11,427
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOLIET AREA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $5k → 7%COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK: $24k → 7%RECLAIM3D INC: $10k → 7%SPECIAL CONNECTIONS OF GRUNDY COUNTY: $13k → 7%COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK: $11k → 7%OPERATION ST NICK: $6k → 7%OPERATION ST NICK: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 35 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
38

Total granted

$3.7M
$699k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+8%

Still filing today

46%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEmploymentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET
    7× · 2017–2025 · $607k · revenue +136%
  • CC
    Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute
    3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +10%
  • WC
    WE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • GH
    GC HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • CC
    CONSERVATION COMMISSION TOWN OF HANOVER NH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • JC
    JOLIET CATHOLIC ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Morris Hospital

Morris Hospital exists to improve the health of area residents.

Health
2
Senior Services of Central Illinois

To support and serve seniors with non-medical services and to promote independent living and enrich quality of life.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Illinois Neuroscience Found

To further the education of healthcare providers in the neurosciences, provide community education with an emphasis on public awareness of neurological disorders, and support and conduct clinical and pre-clinical research in the…

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4
Southwestern Illinois Visiting Nurse Association

Guided by a tradition of personal, clinical, and technological excellence, providing coordinated services, in cooperation with other organizations, to improve the personal health and safety of all members of the community without regard to…

Health
5
West Central Illinois Nutrition

Charitable services for the elderly

Food & Nutrition
6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
United Way of Central Illinois Inc

The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…

Philanthropy
8
Loyola University Medical Center

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…

Health
9
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
10
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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11
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area On Aging

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Central Illinois Agency On Aging Inc

Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chestnut Health Systems Inc; the most unlike its peers is Seneca Community Food Bank. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 90 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRIS HOSPITAL AUXILIARY & FOUNDATION: $672,769 · OtherMORRIS HOSPITAL AUXILIARY & FOUNDATIONYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET: $607,175 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIETChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $449,560 · OtherChildrens Cancer Therapy Development InstituteGRUNDY EUNOIA WELLNESS CENTER NFP: $277,945 · OtherGRUNDY EUNOIA WELLNESS CENTER NFPGC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200,250 · OtherST PATRICKS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $167,033 · OtherMORRIS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $157,146 · OtherMorris Cemetery Association: $151,677 · Other+59 more: $1,570,805 · Other+59 moreMENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND INC: $64,000 · HealthCHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $30,000 · HealthMORRIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $19,780 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthTURN THE TOWNS TEAL INC: $6,711 · HealthWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthMORRIS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,810 · EducationAURORA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationLewis University: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $10,500 · EducationWestern Illinois University Foundation: $10,000 · EducationOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSamford University: $10,000 · EducationTEACH OUTDOORS INC NFP: $5,000 · EducationGRUNDY AREA PADS: $89,366 · Food & NutritionSENECA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $34,500 · Human ServicesSPECIAL CONNECTIONS OF GRUNDY COUNTY: $13,270 · Human ServicesOPERATION ST NICKLAUS INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesRECLAIM3D INC: $10,200 · Human ServicesJoliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $5,000 · Human ServicesBEANS-AND-BITES: $32,166 · EmploymentDWIGHT ALLIANCE: $28,463 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,254,360Health$135,491Education$107,310Food & Nutrition$99,366Human Services$73,470Employment$32,166Arts & Culture$28,463

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET: $607,175 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $449,560 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetWE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY INC: $115,440 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetGRUNDY AREA PADS: $89,366 over 4y, 18% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND INC: $64,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60,450 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES: $59,600 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY INDUSTRIES: $44,343 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $34,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEANS-AND-BITES: $32,166 over 2y, 24% of budgetCHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT ALLIANCE: $28,463 over 1y, 18% of budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLewis University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $19,780 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET: $16,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GRUNDY COUNTY: $15,809 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSPECIAL CONNECTIONS OF GRUNDY COUNTY: $13,270 over 1y, 15% of budgetCASA OF RIVER VALLEY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetK9S FOR VETERANS NFP: $12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EASTERN LA SALLE COUNTY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION ST NICKLAUS INC: $10,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENDAL AT HANOVER I: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURN THE TOWNS TEAL INC: $6,711 over 1y, 26% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $5,719 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJASON CLEARWATER FUND NFP: $5,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJoliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH OUTDOORS INC NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budget
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute ↗
  • Who funds WE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRUNDY AREA PADS ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BEANS-AND-BITES ↗
  • Who funds CHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds DWIGHT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MORRIS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Lewis University ↗

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.

United Way of Grundy …United Way of Will Co…Edward Jones Foundati…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…The Richard M Schulze…AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…
United Way of Grundy CountyIL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Grundy County · United Way of Will County · Edward Jones Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Grundy County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Grundy County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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