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Dekalb County Community Foundation

Our purpose is to serve donors in achieving their philanthropic objectives, to create and build a lasting source of revenue to benefit the residents of our community, and to provide leadership and resources in addressing community needs.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
103
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$137k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$3.2MEducation$3.2MArts & Culture$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.0MAnimals$966kOther$0
02FY2024 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 103 grants below total $2,514,826 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,102,489 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,587,663 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $181k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $949k
$16,316
Median grant
3
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALBE COUNTY INC$136,559
OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CE$132,250
KISHWAUKEE UNITED WAY$112,594
KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE - FOUNDATION$89,527
KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$70,239
WE CARE PREGNANCY CLINIC$65,872
DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER$65,413
DEKALB COUNTY NURSING HOME FOUND$61,951
ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL - DEKALB$58,112
CASA-COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCA$54,521
DEKALB COUNTY SOILWATER CONSERVATI$50,990
TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY$50,973
TANZANIA DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT$48,265
BARB FOOD MART$47,389
SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH$38,200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EQUINE DREAMS: $22k → 13%EQUINE DREAMS: $20k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $101k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $97k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $71k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $71k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $53k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $44k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $40k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $37k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $26k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $15k → 13%GOODFELLOWS OF DEKALBSYCAMORE: $14k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $221k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $161k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $148k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CE: $132k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $130k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $128k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $128k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $126k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $126k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT: $120k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $97k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $94k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $93k → 13%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $36k → 13%DEKALB AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $36k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $35k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $34k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $34k → 13%PROEJCT HOPE: $30k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $27k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $24k → 13%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHIL: $24k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $23k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $23k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $21k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $21k → 13%DEKALB AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $19k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $19k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $19k → 13%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $18k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CA: $16k → 13%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $16k → 13%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $15k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 148 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

148 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

148
78

Total granted

$19M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

58%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • DA
    DeKalb Area Retirement Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
  • HH
    HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $833k · revenue +34%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • SP
    SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $439k
  • HP
    HINCKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • DC
    DEKALB COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

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.

1
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
2
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
3
Cedille Chicago Nfp

Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.

Arts & Culture
4
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.

Arts & Culture
5
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education
6
Dekalb County Community Foundation

Our purpose is to serve donors in achieving their philanthropic objectives, to create and build a lasting source of revenue to benefit the residents of our community, and to provide leadership and resources in addressing community needs.

Philanthropy
7
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Concordia University Chicago

Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…

Education
9
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
12
Decatur Memorial Hospital

Decatur memorial hospital (dmh) serves the healthcare needs of the people of central illinois through operation of a 280-bed acute care hospital and related facilities providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and physician services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cor Cantiamo Nfp. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr15%42%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/233
the rest of the field
16%
5,043/31,831

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

133 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. 133 of the 243 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.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/133
Grantees still filing
99/133
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $524,959 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC — $487,460 · OtherSYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT — $439,323 · Other+152 more — $9,918,641 · Other+152 moreDeKalb Area Retirement Center — $1,038,056 · Human ServicesDeKalb Area Reti…SAFE PASSAGE INC — $754,598 · Human ServicesSAFE PASSAGE INCKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA — $423,647 · Human ServicesKISHWAUKEE FAMIL…CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC — $182,187 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS LEARNI…FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $176,538 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF JANE …COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC — $172,466 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COORDI…+8 more — $330,666 · Human Services+8 moreKishwaukee United Way — $889,254 · PhilanthropyKishwaukee Uni…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $706,774 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY …VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $505,740 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTARY ACTI…ROCHELLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $329,913 · PhilanthropyROCHELLE AREA …BARB FOOD MART NFP — $242,771 · PhilanthropyBARB FOOD MART…+1 more — $79,942 · PhilanthropyPRESERVATION OF EGYPTIAN THEATRE INC — $552,663 · Arts & CulturePRESERVAT…DeKalb County History Center — $333,806 · Arts & CultureDeKalb Co…ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $202,397 · Arts & CultureELLWOOD H…KVAL NFP — $139,752 · Arts & CultureKVAL NFPSTAGE COACH PLAYERS INC — $99,314 · Arts & CultureHINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $97,008 · Arts & CultureDEKALB AREA AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $85,594 · Arts & CultureJoseph F Glidden Homestead and Historical Center — $67,357 · Arts & CultureCOR CANTIAMO NFP — $66,442 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $230,900 · Arts & Culture+8 moreHOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC — $832,929 · Housing & ShelterBarb City Manor Inc — $198,627 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC — $429,091 · EmploymentOPEN DOOR REHABILITATION CENTER — $198,444 · EmploymentFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT — $90,867 · EmploymentDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS — $493,461 · Community ImprovementDEKALB COUNTY NURSING HOME FOUNDATION IN — $68,951 · Community Improvement+1 more — $11,623 · Community Improvement
Other$11,370,383Human Services$3,078,158Philanthropy$2,754,394Arts & Culture$1,875,233Housing & Shelter$1,031,556Employment$718,402Community Improvement$574,035

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDeKalb Area Retirement Center — $1,038,056 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetKishwaukee United Way — $889,254 over 8y, 52% of budgetHOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC — $832,929 over 8y, 10% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC — $754,598 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetPRESERVATION OF EGYPTIAN THEATRE INC — $552,663 over 8y, 10% of budgetKISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $524,959 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $505,740 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS — $493,461 over 7y, 16% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC — $487,460 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC — $429,091 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA — $423,647 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetKISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $371,296 over 8y, 57% of budgetOAKEN ACRES WILDLIFE CENTER — $360,910 over 7y, 31% of budgetTAILS HUMANE SOCIETY — $337,396 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetDeKalb County History Center — $333,806 over 8y, 18% of budgetCASA DeKalb County Inc — $330,066 over 8y, 13% of budgetROCHELLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $329,913 over 4y, 31% of budgetTANZANIA DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT NFP — $276,649 over 8y, 48% of budgetADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC — $257,177 over 8y, 11% of budgetBARB FOOD MART NFP — $242,771 over 8y, 34% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC — $224,267 over 8y, 15% of budgetSYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $211,109 over 8y, 39% of budgetELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $202,397 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetBarb City Manor Inc — $198,627 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetOPEN DOOR REHABILITATION CENTER — $198,444 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER — $186,687 over 6y, 16% of budgetCHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC — $182,187 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $176,538 over 7y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC — $172,466 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES — $157,945 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetNETWORK OF NATIONS INCORPORATED — $153,196 over 8y, 43% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL — $151,863 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DEKALB COUNTY — $146,438 over 5y, 50% of budgetKVAL NFP — $139,752 over 8y, 41% of budgetELDER CARE SERVICES OF DEKALB COUNTY INC — $139,357 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetPAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP — $132,815 over 8y, 17% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $122,773 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDeKalb Education Foundation — $120,038 over 8y, 62% of budgetSTAGE COACH PLAYERS INC — $99,314 over 7y, 40% of budgetHINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $97,008 over 7y, 20% of budgetWalcamp Outdoor Ministries Inc — $91,332 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS HOUSE NFP — $91,094 over 8y, 23% of budgetFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT — $90,867 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetDeKalb Area Womens Center — $86,338 over 6y, 79% of budgetDEKALB AREA AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $85,594 over 8y, 48% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION INC — $82,374 over 5y, 59% of budgetWATERMAN LIONS CLUB CHARITIES INCORPORATED — $79,942 over 6y, 54% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION — $77,250 over 6y, 9.1% of budget
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 DeKalb Area Retirement Center ↗
  • Who funds Kishwaukee United Way ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION OF EGYPTIAN THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds OAKEN ACRES WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DeKalb County History Center ↗
  • Who funds CASA DeKalb County Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCHELLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TANZANIA DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT NFP ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BARB FOOD MART NFP ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds SYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Barb City Manor Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK OF NATIONS INCORPORATED ↗

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.

Ideal Industries Foun…Northwestern Memorial…Douglas C & Lynn M Ro…Northern Illinois Foo…Sycamore Charities In…Nebraska Community Fo…Me Stevens-Acct A-Chu…George E& Betty Bdutt…Northwestern Memorial…Community Foundation …The Bersted FoundationKishwaukee United Way
Ideal Industries FoundationIL64.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ideal Industries Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Nebraska Community Foundation · Me Stevens-Acct A-Church Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · The Bersted Foundation · Kishwaukee United Way

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 Dekalb County Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Jersey Cares Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 243 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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