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Community Foundation of Northern Il
The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois ("CFNIL") was established to serve as a catalyst for giving and a promoter of philanthropy. The Foundation attracts, preserves, and grows a charitable endowment for the present and future needs of the people of Northern Illinois. The Foundation identifies community needs and convenes…
- $8.0M
- Granted FY2023
- 121
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 118
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Community Foundation of Northern Il’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Northern Il, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 131 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Community Foundation of Northern Il named its own grantees at scale: 113 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2023
- $3.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $18,790
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $264,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 77 to 118
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 4
- Total assets, FY2023
- $156M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Community Foundation of Northern Il funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 118 | $3.6M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $3.8M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 102 | $3.5M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $3.2M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 81 | $2.9M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 78 | $3.2M | 46% |
| FY2017 | 77 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockford University | $1,835,192 | 8 | 1% |
| Illinois Growth Enterprises | $1,734,449 | 8 | 69% |
| Rockford Area Arts Council | $934,745 | 8 | 82% |
| United Way of Rock River Valley | $768,175 | 8 | 4% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $637,672 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of Nachusa Grasslands | $619,488 | 7 | 21% |
| Boylan Central Catholic High School | $584,425 | 8 | n/a |
| Rock Valley College Foundation | $573,855 | 5 | 14% |
| Zion Development Corporation | $541,786 | 8 | 15% |
| OSF Healthcare Foundation | $525,515 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 228 grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Northern Il supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 157 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Rock River Valley · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Blazer Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of Northern Il with peer funders
About Community Foundation of Northern Il
- How much does Community Foundation of Northern Il give?
- Community Foundation of Northern Il reported 121 itemized grants totaling $3,637,438, out of $7,984,479 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 118 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation of Northern Il fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Education (19%), Health (13%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Northern Il's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rockford University ($1.8M), Illinois Growth Enterprises ($1.7M), Rockford Area Arts Council ($935k).
- Does Community Foundation of Northern Il fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Northern Il?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Rock River Valley, The Kjellstrom Family Foundation, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008.
- Where is Community Foundation of Northern Il based?
- Community Foundation of Northern Il is based in IL.
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