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Guy Reno Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $60,000 |
| PATRIOTS GATEWAY CENTER | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $20,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| BURPEE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CRUSADER COMMUNITY HEALTH | $10,000 |
| GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER FOR CHILDR | $10,000 |
| SWEDISH AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RAMP | $10,000 |
| BOYLAN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $9,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $196k) 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against -31% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +31%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +98%- RUROCKFORD UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- DPDISABLED PATRIOT FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -34%
- COCIRCLE OF CHANGE (VETERANS DOG PGM)one grant, 2017 · $10k
- MCMISS CARLY'S INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
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.…
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
Rockford sexual assault counseling, inc. (rsac) responds to the needs of victims of sexual assault/abuse and their families/significant others through emergency services, emotional support, counseling, referral, advocacy, and education,…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Provide affordable housing solutions for low-income families.
To advocate on behalf of those in need of decent shelter by building and renovating affordable houses.
The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region
At community action we provide access and opportunity for those we serve and those who support our efforts. through innovative programs and strong community partnerships we eliminate barriers, establishing clear pathways to economic…
To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…
Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.
The mission of rock island economic growth corporation is to renovate and build new single family or multi-family housing in the midwest region; to foster low-income housing that: enhances the overall image and economic vitality of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Schuyler County Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 66 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 K CANCER BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds REMEDIES RENEWING LIVES ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds HOO HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Hospital ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS GROWTH ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
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 Northern IL · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Blazer 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 Guy Reno Family 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.
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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