· Public charity
Kishwaukee United Way
To improve lives by sharing community resources
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Adventure Works | $8,000 |
| RAMP Center for Ind Living | $8,000 |
| CASA | $7,500 |
| Hope Haven | $5,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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 +13% since the first grant, against -19% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Charitable and educational purposes;serve at-risk youth
Prevent/intervene in child abuse situations
Provide counselling services to those in need due to crisis.
The Agency assists sexual assault and domestic violence victims through counseling and/or finding resources available to assist.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Counsel sexual assault victims and family members.
Delta Childrens Advocacy Centers mission is to respond to child abuse in the Mississippi Delta by serving and nurturing children and non-offending caregivers through a trauma-informed multidisciplinary approach.
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
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 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 ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kishwaukee United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kishwaukee United Way. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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