· Private foundation
Joan Woodman Orton McCollum Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF RICHLAND CENTER | $70,000 |
| RICHLAND CENTER PERFORMING ARTS COU | $45,000 |
| RICHLAND CENTER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $30,500 |
| OCOOCH MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $8,000 |
| SYMONS RECREATION COMPLEX FOUNDATIO | $3,000 |
| HORNET FOOTBALL SUMMER CAMPS INC | $3,000 |
| RICHLAND CENTER DIAMOND CLUB INC | $2,500 |
| DISCOVERY PLAYSCHOOL INC | $2,000 |
| GREATER RICHLAND AREA CANCER ELIMIN | $1,000 |
| RICHLAND CO VETERANS HONOR ROLL INC | $1,000 |
| THE UNION LEARNING CADRE INC | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- SWSCHMITT WOODLAND HILLS INC2× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +6%
- GRGREATER RICHLAND AREA CANCER ELIMINATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +19%
- RARICHLAND AREA RESCUE INC3× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- AGAD GERMAN WAREHOUSE CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -50% · 27% of their budget
- MPMUSCODA PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- PVPINE VALLEY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Our mission is to advocate and compassionately care for the abandoned, abused, and neglected animals in our community, and to find them loving homes.
Educate public on area history.
College scholarships
The Raymond Central Community Foundation recognizes a need to bring our communities together to improve the opportunities and facilities our students have available to them each day. The RC Community Foundation is a 501c3 organization…
To promote richland county's economic development and expansion.
To establish and maintain a historic museum(s)in & for Richland County,Il; to inform, educate and promote interest in the history of Richland County, State of Illinois
To encourage and assist in the development of economic, educational and charitable activities of richland county, illinois and its surrounding communities.
Operated for the improvement, expansion, support, development, maintenance, enhancement, and upkeep of the buildings, equipment, and collections of the richland county public library.
To rescue, house, and provide medical care for domestic animals, and to provide public education and financial support for humane community resource and service programs.
To benefit richland community college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richland Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Partners Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
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 42 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 SOUTHWEST PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds AD GERMAN WAREHOUSE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHMITT WOODLAND HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND CENTER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Discovery Playschool Inc ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCOOCH MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHLAND AREA CANCER ELIMINATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYMONS RECREATION COMPLEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND AREA RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PASSAGES A PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Joan Woodman Orton McCollum Foundation Inc 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.