· Private foundation
D a O Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- RRACVBone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD REGIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization D a O Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D a O Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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