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Geneva Community Chest
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $169,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $193,573 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,273 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRICITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP | $18,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $14,200 |
| VALLEY SHELTERED WORKSHOP | $13,300 |
| FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE | $11,800 |
| FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH | $11,000 |
| ELDERDAY CENTER INC | $10,800 |
| SENIOR COUNCIL MEALS ON WHEELS | $9,100 |
| TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES | $8,700 |
| MUTUAL GROUND INC | $8,600 |
| HORSEPOWER THERAPUTIC RIDING | $7,800 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,100 |
| KRISTOFFER LARSEN BIG HEART FOUNDAT | $7,100 |
| JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY | $6,700 |
| FOX RIVER POST 75 AMERICAN LEGION | $6,300 |
| RADICAL LOVE | $6,300 |
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 (FY18–25, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TCTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP6× · 2020–2025 · $109k · revenue +80%
- LHLAZARUS HOUSE8× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +39%
- FVFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- BFBECKY FURNISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $9k
- GPGIGI'S PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2020 · $8k
- SASALVATION ARMY GOLDEN DINERS2× · 2018–2019 · $6k
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.
Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.
Tarry House operates group homes to provide shelter, food and,services to adults with severe mental disorders
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Built on a foundation of compassion and integrity, rhdd is dedicated to supporting individuals with a disability, to live and work in their communities.safe in a family environment, individuals are empowered to achieve personal and…
Brian's House specializes in the care and treatment of people with disabilities. Brian's House provides a broad range of human services to people with special needs and challenges. The primary goal is to maximize each individual's…
Provide mental health services.
Valley Residential Services provides personalized support in safe, comfortable home environments for developmentally disabled individuals, residences for veterans with rehabilitation opportunities, and family assistance services.
Training of developmentally disabled individuals
Sheltered Living Inc supports the efforts of individuals with intellectual disabilities to achieve independence and actively participate in the community.
The Rose House helps adults with developmental disabilities pursue full, active lives by providing them and their families with: 1) Innovative choices for living and learning - 2) Opportunities for independent living to the full extent of…
Social rehabilitation programs for adults with mental illness and intellectual and developmental disabilities that provide opportunties for personal growth and satisfaction through life skills training and social activities in a safe and…
Provide up to 24 hours a day care for disabled individuals including job training, coaching, group companion and community care for health and safety. Also provide residential services to those with disabilities requiring assisted living.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tricity Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Fox River Geneva Post 75 American Legion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 TRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERDAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SHELTERED WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds HORSEPOWER THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOX RIVER GENEVA POST 75 AMERICAN LEGION ↗
- Who funds RADICAL LOVE ↗
- Who funds RISING LIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc · Dunham Foundation · Fox Valley United Way · Batavia United Way · Inc Mental Health Alliance · Shodeen Family Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak Foundation · McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc · Dunham Fund
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 Geneva Community Chest 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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