· Public charity
Kishwaukee United Way
To improve lives by sharing community resources
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 8 grants below total $71,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $100,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,500 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Service Agency | $12,500 |
| Opportunity House | $10,250 |
| Voluntary Action Center | $10,000 |
| Comm Coordinated Child Care | $10,000 |
| RAMP Center for Ind Living | $8,000 |
| Adventure Works | $8,000 |
| CASA | $7,500 |
| Hope Haven | $5,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +13% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS7× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +13%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +67%
- HHHOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTERone grant, 2018 · $35k
- CCCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CAREone grant, 2018 · $25k
- HHHOPE HAVENone grant, 2018 · $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.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Charitable and educational purposes;serve at-risk youth
Prevent/intervene in child abuse situations
The Agency assists sexual assault and domestic violence victims through counseling and/or finding resources available to assist.
Provide counselling services to those in need due to crisis.
Counsel sexual assault victims and family members.
To build community while increasing food security through growing and providing ready access to fresh, nutritious local produce for dekalb county, illinois residents.
The mission is to unite people to provide decent and affordable housing for families in need
Homeless prevention outreach
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
We are and Agency created on the fundamental value that strengthening one family at a time will transform our community as a whole. we believe that all people should have access to behavioral healt servicesa and to live a fulfilling life.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adventure Works of Dekalb County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barb Food Mart Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BARB FOOD MART NFP ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
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: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Ideal Industries Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Northern Illinois Food Bank · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Kishwaukee United Way 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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