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Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities

TO PROVIDE A FREE RECREATIONAL & EDUCATIONAL CAMP Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$43k78%
FY20246$6k83%
FY202312$15kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$17kRecreation & Sports$10kCrime & Legal$8kHuman Services$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kYouth Development$3kAnimals$3kHealth$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Special Olympics Illinois$5,00010%
Casa of Southern Illinois Inc$4,00021%
River Bend Food Reservoir$2,00010%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$2,00010%
Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity Inc$2,0001n/a
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc$2,00010%
Peace Officers Memorial Foundation$2,00022%
Galesburg Area Crime Stoppers Inc$1,5002n/a
Marion Ministerial Alliance$1,00011%
Chicagoland Veterans Campus Inc$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Special Olympics Illinois$5,00010%
Casa of Southern Illinois Inc$4,00021%
River Bend Food Reservoir$2,00010%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$2,00010%
Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity Inc$2,0001n/a
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc$2,00010%
Peace Officers Memorial Foundation$2,00022%
Galesburg Area Crime Stoppers Inc$1,5002n/a
Marion Ministerial Alliance$1,00011%
Chicagoland Veterans Campus Inc$1,0001n/a
Peanut Butter & Jesus Inc$1,00010%
Bensenville Wood Dale Food Pantry$1,00010%
The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis$1,00010%
The 100 Club of Illinois$1,00010%
Brothers of Liberty Inc$1,0001n/a
American Legion Memorial Home Corp$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpecial Olympics Illinois: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa of Southern Illinois Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRiver Bend Food Reservoir: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Officers Memorial Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMarion Ministerial Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPeanut Butter & Jesus Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBensenville Wood Dale Food Pantry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe 100 Club of Illinois: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Legion Memorial Home Corp: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities

How much does Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities give?
Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities reported 28 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Crime & Legal (13%).
Who are Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Special Olympics Illinois ($5k), Casa of Southern Illinois Inc ($4k), River Bend Food Reservoir ($2k).
Does Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities based?
Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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