Illinois · Public charity
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $5k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $887k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Fox Valley United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $108k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $109k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $90k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $144k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $306k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $371k | 4% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House | $169,712 | 7 | 0% |
| Mutual Ground Inc | $129,231 | 8 | 1% |
| Tricity Family Services | $116,253 | 8 | 2% |
| VNA Health Care | $98,803 | 8 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $90,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry | $89,941 | 4 | 1% |
| Marie Wilkinson Child Development Center | $88,494 | 8 | 18% |
| Association for Individual Develop | $82,331 | 4 | n/a |
| Fox Valley Family YMCA Inc | $82,241 | 5 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $69,372 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 49 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fox Valley United Way supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
About Fox Valley United Way
- How much does Fox Valley United Way give?
- Fox Valley United Way reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,250, out of $68,048 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fox Valley United Way fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Health (18%).
- Who are Fox Valley United Way's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House ($170k), Mutual Ground Inc ($129k), Tricity Family Services ($116k).
- Does Fox Valley United Way fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fox Valley United Way?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, The Bersted Foundation, Dunham Fund.
- Where is Fox Valley United Way based?
- Fox Valley United Way is based in IL.
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