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Galesburg Community Foundation

The GALESBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION works to improve the quality and health of our communities.

$1.1M
Granted FY2018
34
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$289k
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.

Philanthropy$9.2MEducation$634kRecreation & Sports$398kArts & Culture$306kCommunity Improvement$139kHuman Services$82kHealth$72kYouth Development$69kOther$0
02FY2018 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $894,624 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,062,166 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,542 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k12 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $322k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
  • $250k+1 grant · $289k
$11,883
Median grant
2
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARL SANDBURG COLLEGE$289,101
FOREFRONT$120,000
WILLIAMSFIELD PARKS ASSOCIATION$91,912
DISCOVERY DEPOT$36,451
KCCDD INC$30,480
RAINBOW RIDERS$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$21,500
KNOX COUNTY YMCA$21,184
FISH OF GALESBURG$20,576
CASA OF KNOX COUNTY$19,000
CITY OF GALESBURG$16,265
RURAL SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE$15,500
ROWVA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$14,500
THE ORPHEUM THEATRE$14,000
WARREN ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$13,850
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 (FY17–18, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 16%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 16%ROSEVILLE KIDS PLACE: $10k → 16%KNOX COUNTY YMCA: $21k → 15%LOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK: $8k → 15%STONE HAYES CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT: $8k → 15%SAFE HARBOR FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 15%LOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK: $5k → 15%FISH OF GALESBURG: $21k → 15%FISH OF GALESBURG: $17k → 15%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
12

Total granted

$1.5M
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+33%

Still filing today

74%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

  • OT
    ORPHEUM THEATRE OF GALESBURG IL NFP INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $131k · revenue +82%
  • GM
    GALESBURG MUSEUMS INC DBA DISCOVERY DEPOT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • RR
    RAINBOW RIDERS NFP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $38k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • WI
    WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue -5%
  • GR
    GALESBURG RESCUE MISSION & WOMENS SHELTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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
Senior Services Center of Will County

To enhance the quality of life of the older person, support theirindependence, encourage their involvement in the community, provide analternative to loneliness and isolation and provide a community focalpoint where older persons come…

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2
Central Illinois Services

To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…

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3
Seniors Assistance Center

Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…

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4
West Central Illinois Area Agency On Aging

Services for the elderly

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5
Central Illinois Agency On Aging Inc

Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…

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6
Central Illinois Service Access Inc

Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.

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7
Galesburg Community Foundation

The galesburg community foundation works to improve the quality and health of our communities. we believe that connecting people to the causes they care about is a key ingredient to effective philanthropy.

Philanthropy
8
West Central Illinois Aging & Disability Resource Center

Services for the aged.

Human Services
9
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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10
Voluntary Action Center of Northern Illinois

Voluntary Action Center, which serves Bureau, Dekalb, Kendall, Lasalle and Putnam counties provides high quality services that address the basic transportation and nutrition needs of its communities.

Philanthropy
11
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
12
Community Workshop & Training Center Inc

Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kccdd Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monmouth Roseville Education Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 31. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number12%3%<5yr10%0%5–10yr17%26%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr17%23%35–55yr29%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value12%1%<5yr10%0%5–10yr17%40%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr17%23%35–55yr29%12%55yr+

The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/46
the rest of the field
6%
25/385

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

32 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. 32 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Carl Sandburg College — $582,035 · OtherCarl Sandburg CollegeCITY OF GALESBURG — $340,431 · OtherCITY OF GALESBURG+23 more — $259,238 · Other+23 moreORPHEUM THEATRE OF GALESBURG IL NFP INC — $130,500 · Arts & CultureORPHEUM THEAT…GALESBURG MUSEUMS INC DBA DISCOVERY DEPOT — $49,960 · Arts & CultureGALESBURG MUS…CHORAL DYNAMICS OF GALESBURG INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHORAL DYNAMI…GALESBURG SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $19,505 · Arts & CultureGALESBURG SYM…Buchanan Center for the Arts — $10,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $6,427 · Arts & CultureWILLIAMSFIELD PARKS ASSOCIATION — $137,981 · Recreation & SportsWILLIAMSFIEL…RAINBOW RIDERS NFP — $38,420 · Recreation & SportsRAINBOW RIDE…WHY NOT NOW INC — $20,133 · Recreation & SportsWHY NOT NOW …TRIUMPH SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTRIUMPH SERV…FOREFRONT — $120,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $5,100 · PhilanthropyFISH OF GALESBURG — $37,346 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KNOX COUNTY ILLINOIS — $21,184 · Human ServicesLOVING BOTTOMS DIAPER BANK — $13,100 · Human ServicesJAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER — $12,400 · Human ServicesRoseville Kids Place — $10,000 · Human ServicesSTONE-HAYES CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $7,500 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR FAMILY CRISIS CENTER LTD — $5,250 · Human ServicesRURAL SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,500 · EducationROWVA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $14,500 · EducationCASA OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $29,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,181,704Arts & Culture$236,642Recreation & Sports$216,534Philanthropy$125,100Human Services$106,780Education$30,000Crime & Legal$29,500

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLIAMSFIELD PARKS ASSOCIATION — $137,981 over 2y, 96% of budgetGALESBURG MUSEUMS INC DBA DISCOVERY DEPOT — $49,960 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetRAINBOW RIDERS NFP — $38,420 over 2y, 23% of budgetKCCDD INC — $35,480 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCASA OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $29,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KNOX COUNTY ILLINOIS — $21,184 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRIUMPH SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCHORAL DYNAMICS OF GALESBURG INC — $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGALESBURG SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $19,505 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetWESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC — $18,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROWVA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 1y, 34% of budgetWarren Achievement Center Inc — $13,850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $12,516 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER — $12,400 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBuchanan Center for the Arts — $10,250 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING SERVICE OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRoseville Kids Place — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budget1ST STREET ARMOURY INC — $9,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HARBOR FAMILY CRISIS CENTER LTD — $5,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMONMOUTH ROSEVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,150 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCUS IMPACT INVESTING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

United Way of Knox Co…Addleman FoundationWarren County United …Donald E Fike Family …Pattee Foundation IncTwomey FoundationWestern Illinois Area…Bnsf Railway Foundati…The National Associat…The Chicago Community…Amazonsmile FoundationDonor Advised Charita…
United Way of Knox County IncIL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Knox County Inc · Addleman Foundation · Warren County United Way · Donald E Fike Family Foundation · Pattee Foundation Inc · Twomey Foundation · Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Galesburg 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 47 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.6M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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