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Fox Valley United Way

To improve lives in the communities served through fundraising and by providing leadership in fostering collaberation and leveraging resources to focus on solving the identified community problems.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$615kPublic Safety & Disaster$425kHealth$407kHousing & Shelter$243kFood & Nutrition$187kYouth Development$148kInternational$117kCrime & Legal$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $5,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $68,048 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,798 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.

$5,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$887k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIE WILKINSON CHILD DEVELP CENTER$5,250
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $671k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EASTER SEALS JOLIET REGION: $5k → 7%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $90k → 14%LOAVES & FISHES: $6k → 7%LAZARUS HOUSE: $13k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $9k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $7k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $7k → 8%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $7k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $6k → 8%ELDERDAY CENTER INC: $11k → 8%FAMILY FOCUS: $15k → 8%FAMILY FOCUS: $9k → 8%FAMILY FOCUS: $7k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $52k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $38k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $38k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $29k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $25k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $21k → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $13k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $13k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $12k → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 8%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA: $11k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $10k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $10k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $9k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $41k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $9k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $22k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $8k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN OF UNITY: $8k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $11k → 8%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA: $7k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN OF UNITY: $6k → 8%TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER: $6k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND: $5k → 8%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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 34 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

$1.7M
$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+26%

Still filing today

76%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • PA
    PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +139%
  • MG
    MUTUAL GROUND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +105%
  • TF
    TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +196%
  • CO
    CITY OF AURORA
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • EC
    ELDERDAY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +66%

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
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services
2
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
3
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
4
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
5
Thrive Counseling Center

Our mission is to provide community-centered mental health services that empower individuals and families to build resilience and lead lives filled with meaning, connection, and hope.

Health
6
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

Lutheran social services of illinois, through service and advocacy seeks to bring healing, justice and wholeness to persons and to enhance the quality of people's lives.

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7
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
8
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
9
Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes Inc

To provide professional counseling and support services to individuals, children and families to improve the quality of their life at home and in the community

Human Services
10
Mental Health Centers of Western Il

Provide mental health services.

Health
11
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…

Health
12
Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc

We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Counseling Service of Aurora and the most unlike its peers is The Salvation Army World Service Office. 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr14%44%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr14%51%35–55yr16%34%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%1/50
the rest of the field
16%
5,235/33,359

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

42 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. 42 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VNA Health Care — $98,803 · OtherVNA Health CareMARIE WILKINSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $88,494 · OtherMARIE WILKINSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOP — $82,331 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPFox Valley Family YMCA Inc — $82,241 · OtherFox Valley Family YMCA IncTHE SALVATION ARMY — $69,372 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC — $62,955 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INCKENDALL COUNTY FOOD PANTRY — $58,658 · OtherKENDALL COUNTY FOOD PANTRYWORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE — $54,084 · OtherWORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCEKendall County Forest Preserve District — $40,480 · OtherBREAKING FREE INC — $38,090 · Other+17 more — $254,761 · Other+17 morePUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE — $169,712 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER …MUTUAL GROUND INC — $129,231 · Human ServicesMUTUAL GROUND INCTRICITY FAMILY SERVICES — $116,253 · Human ServicesTRICITY FAMILY SERVICESMetropolitan Family Services — $90,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family ServicesLAZARUS HOUSE — $41,751 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSEMARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC — $31,727 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $30,165 · Human Services+6 more — $62,494 · Human Services+6 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY — $431,169 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION …AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY — $89,941 · Food & NutritionMAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS — $10,000 · Food & NutritionEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $30,633 · HealthTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP — $16,143 · HealthRush Copley Foundation — $9,000 · HealthCONLEY OUTREACH COMMUNITY SERVICES — $5,412 · HealthSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC — $5,394 · HealthTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE — $63,138 · InternationalHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC — $17,570 · Crime & LegalRITAS MINISTRY — $16,255 · Crime & LegalPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC — $8,022 · Crime & Legal
Other$930,269Human Services$671,333Philanthropy$431,169Food & Nutrition$99,941Health$66,582International$63,138Crime & Legal$41,847

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY — $431,169 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE — $169,712 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMUTUAL GROUND INC — $129,231 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTRICITY FAMILY SERVICES — $116,253 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetVNA Health Care — $98,803 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY — $89,941 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMARIE WILKINSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $88,494 over 8y, 18% of budgetFox Valley Family YMCA Inc — $82,241 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE — $63,138 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC — $62,955 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE — $54,084 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE — $41,751 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKING FREE INC — $38,090 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC — $31,727 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION — $30,633 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $30,165 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT — $22,747 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRENZ ADDICTION COUNSELING CENTER — $22,091 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INTERACTIVE CENTER Scitech Fox Valley STEM Programs — $21,429 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $20,430 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA — $18,540 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP — $16,143 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAURORA AREA AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN OF UNITY — $14,235 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY — $13,606 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $12,486 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC — $11,565 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS — $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS FOX VALLEY — $9,128 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetRush Copley Foundation — $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC — $8,022 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC — $7,205 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRiverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action — $6,575 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES — $6,318 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF JOLIET REGION INC — $5,455 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONLEY OUTREACH COMMUNITY SERVICES — $5,412 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Bersted FoundationDunham FundNorthwestern Memorial…Inc Mental Health All…Dunham FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Shodeen Family Founda…Juvenile Protective A…McGowan Gin Rosica Fa…The Dupage Community …Efs Foundation
Community Foundation of the Fox River ValleyIL77.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · The Bersted Foundation · Dunham Fund · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Inc Mental Health Alliance · Dunham Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Shodeen Family Foundation · Juvenile Protective Association of Aurora Illinois · McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Efs 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 Fox Valley United Way 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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