How much did Community Foundation of Northern IL grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$6.8MEducation$3.8MArts & Culture$3.0MHuman Services$2.5MEnvironment$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MYouth Development$995kHealth$887kEmployment$661kOther$11M

02FY2024 · 243 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k83 grants · $605k
$10k–50k124 grants · $2.5M
$50k–250k30 grants · $2.9M
$250k+6 grants · $2.5M

$13,285

Median grant

States reached

$156M

Total assets

Largest grants

Community Grants Annual Grant Pass-Thru$998,872
Ronald F Peterson Area Economic Development$411,485
The MILL Foundation$325,132
CFNIL Education - Career Pathways Focus Committee$289,444
Robert A Schlichting Family$262,717
CFNIL Youth & Families Focus Committee$258,976
Ronald F Peterson Area Economic Development$205,743
Illinois Growth Enterprises$195,887
Community Grants Annual Grant Pass-Thru$191,974
CFNIL Sustainable Communities Focus Committee$182,807
CFNIL Health Focus Committee$152,339
CFNIL Arts & Humanities Focus Committee$137,105
The Kjellstrom Family Foundation$132,205
CFNIL Human Services 2 Focus Committee (Basic Needs Compassionate Support)$106,637
William and Catherine McCoy Scholarship$105,461

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$30M · 152 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

152 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152

Total granted

$30M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+16%

Still filing today

78%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $564k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyCommunity 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

WA
William and Catherine McCoy Scholarship
2× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +311% · 30% of their budget
RU
Rockford University
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +11%
RA
Rockford Area Arts Council
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +132% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

OH
OSF HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $526k · revenue +38%
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $441k · revenue +104%
FS
FREEPORT SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2023 · $82k

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.

Rockford Community Investment Fund

To support housing and community development ventures

Community Improvement

Rockford Regional Health Council

Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.

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Transform Rockford

Community Improvement

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

Mosaic Illinois Housing of Rockford I

The organization provides low income affordable housing under ihda guidelines.

Health

Rockford Area Economic Development

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

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Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health

Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

Rockford Charter School Organization

To operate charter schools in rockford, illinois

Education

North Shore Health Care Foundation

To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding education and advocacy

Health

Northern Illinois Medical Center

To provide quality health care services with innovative and responsible use of resources and promote wellness for the mchenry county area.

Health

Rockford Area Pregnancy Care Center

Offer help and hope to those facing an unplanned pregnancy. we offer free and confidential pregnancy tests, std testing, ultrasounds, mentoring, educational classes, case management, nutritional support, and referrals to community agencies.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for Northwest Il and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%2/241

the rest of the field

13%

4,448/33,073

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

180 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

177/180

Grantees still filing

131/180

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$13,965,852Philanthropy$6,782,979Education$3,753,859Arts & Culture$3,038,997Human Services$2,530,599Environment$1,443,397Housing & Shelter$1,215,479

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.

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.

United Way of Rock River ValleyIL118× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rock River Valley · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson · Blazer Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable 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 organisation Community Foundation of Northern IL 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Macktown Living History Education Center.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363756832 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Macktown Living History Education Center, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Community Foundation of Northern IL?

Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of Northern IL through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Community Foundation of Northern IL

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

180 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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Community Foundation of Northern IL

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

180 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation of Northern IL?

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