· Private foundation
Dixon Community Trust
TO ASSIST CHARITABLE AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DIXON, ILLINOIS AND LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS AREA.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| DIXON FAMILY YMCA | $5,500 |
| DIXON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,110 |
| DIXON PETUNIA FESTIVAL | $4,000 |
| DIXON IL POLICE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| GOOD FELLOWS | $2,500 |
| DIXON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BUDDY BAGS OF DIXON | $1,000 |
| HOME OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| LEE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 0% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DIDIXON IL POLICE DEPARTMENT2× · 2024–2025 · $21k
- UWUNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue 0%
- DPDIXON PETUNIA FESTIVAL3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- RRRONALD REAGAN HOME PRESERVATION FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +5%
- DPDIXON PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST 170one grant, 2019 · $20k
- SVSAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -3%
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.
Senior citizen assistance
To accept contributions, honorariums, memorials and bequests with a specific reference for the sole benefit of dixon gallery and gardens.
For the betterment and growth of dixon, the dixon chamber of commerce and main street advocates for our businesses, community, and visitors by promoting economic development, cultural programs, civic engagement and historic preservation.
To increase the supply of affordable housing in the denton area through acquisition, renovation, construction, promotion, financing, development, management and operation of both rental housing and homes offered to first-time homebuyers.…
It shall be the mission of heritage square, a non-profit corporation, to provide quality care in a warm and loving environment for our residents. we shall make every effort to respect the dignity of each resident as a productive and…
Community center to help those in need and community support
To facilitate the ability of all dalton and whitfield co. residents to acquire and maintain safe and decent housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dixon Family Ymca and the most unlike its peers is Sauk Valley College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 RONALD REAGAN HOME PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DIXON PETUNIA FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds DIXON FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds DIXON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds DIXON PADS SHELTER ↗
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.
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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 Dixon Community Trust 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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