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D a O Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN FUND | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| RAM | $13,000 |
| ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $12,704 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| ROCK HOUSE KIDS | $10,000 |
| BURPEE MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY | $1,500 |
| ROCKFORD MARLINS SWIM CLUB | $1,500 |
| THE HAVEN NETWORK | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE ROCKFORD | $1,000 |
| OSF SAINT ANTHONY MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| ETHNIC HERITAGE MUSEUM | $600 |
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 (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +16% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- RHROCK HOUSE KIDS3× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +25%
- RFROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +266%
- RSROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 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…
To support housing and community development ventures
Our purpose is to provide financial services to our members with competitive rates while maintaining our financial stability.
Inspire communitys interest in the past
Preservation of swedish historical structure, culture and artifacts through the operations of a museum and cultural center.
Cemetery operations including lot sales, interments, cremation services and perpetual care.
The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region
Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.
The organization provides low income affordable housing under illinois housing development authority guidelines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Day Nursery and the most unlike its peers is The Haven Network for Perinatal Death & Bereavement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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 SAMARITAN FUND NP INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Haven Network for Perinatal Death & Bereavement ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD MARLINS SWIM CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE EAGLE NATURE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds ETHNIC HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD REGIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY ↗
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 · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Goddard Family Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · The Ben Harding Family 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 D a O 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.
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