· Public charity
Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc
To serve the children of the Rockford area through educational scholarship grants and grants to local 501(c)(3) organizations that assist children and their families through educational, leisure and social activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $104,175 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,465 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,290 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Easter Seals | $25,000 |
| Rockford Park District | $25,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $20,000 |
| KFACT | $12,500 |
| Goldie Floberg Center | $11,675 |
| League of Women Voters | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +76% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- RPROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $148k · revenue +126%
- SYSTATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST3× · 2021–2024 · $91k · revenue +81%
- RHROCK HOUSE KIDS4× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- ARAFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER AT BOOKERgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $39k · revenue +67%
- RRAMPone grant, 2021 · $20k
- RVROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +249%
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.
The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
To support housing and community development ventures
Vision statement: enhance economic vitality in the rockford region by providing access to post-secondary education for all rockford public school graduates. - mission statement: remove financial barriers by offering full-tuition…
Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.
To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…
To provide behavior guidance and promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of boy and girls in rockford, illinois and its surrounding communities by supporting the boys and girls club of rockford.
The organization provides low income affordable housing under illinois housing development authority guidelines.
To enrich the quality of life within the diverse population of northwest rockford.
Rockford area community endowment is a local foundation committed to assisting rockford area residents, businesses, government and volunteer organizations to expand opportunities locally. race was founded in 1964.
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Land Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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 ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER AT BOOKER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER ↗
- Who funds KFACT INC KEEPING FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKI BRONCS INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds LIFE DECISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · United Way of Rock River Valley · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · SwedishAmerican Health Foundation · Blazer Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable 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 Kiwanis Charities of Rockford 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.