· Private foundation
Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities
TO PROVIDE A FREE RECREATIONAL & EDUCATIONAL CAMP Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO REGIONAL FOOD DEPOS | $2,000 |
| PEORIA AREA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL CRISIS RESPONSE CANINES | $2,000 |
| RIVER BEND FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| RIVERS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| GALESBURG AREA CRIME STOPPERS | $1,000 |
| SAINT ELMO FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY DRUG COURT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 21 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue -6%
- NCNATIONAL CRISIS RESPONSE CANINES2× · 2024–2025 · $3k
- KCKNOX COUNTY DRUG COURT3× · 2023–2025 · $3k
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOISone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
Provide emergency food and shelter
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
Leading siouxland in the fight against hunger
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
Our mission at the Sauk Valley Foodbank is to help alleviate food insecurity in the Sauk Valley area.
The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PEANUT BUTTER & JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds BENSENVILLE WOOD DALE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS OF LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds American Legion Memorial Home Corp ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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