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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.

$154k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$104k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$104k33%
FY20248$164k50%
FY20236$104k33%
FY20225$88k60%
FY20218$104k88%
FY20205$111kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$181kRecreation & Sports$174kHuman Services$62kHealth$56kCommunity Improvement$49kFood & Nutrition$36kEmployment$30kHousing & Shelter$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRockford Park District Foundation: $148,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetStateline Youth for Christ: $91,012 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetRock House Kids: $53,088 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRegional Access & Mobilization Project Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAfrican-American Resource Center at Booker: $39,280 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Families for Children Alliance: $24,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGoldie B Floberg Center: $23,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRock Valley College Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSki Broncs Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNorthern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence: $16,135 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club Association of Rockford: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLife Decisions Inc: $14,401 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMilestone Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridges to Prosperity Northern Illinois: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPatriots' Gateway Community Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRockford Area Habitat for Humanity: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNatural Land Institute: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Community Foundation of Northern ILIL43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc

How much does Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc give?
Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $104,175, out of $154,465 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Recreation & Sports (26%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Rockford Park District Foundation ($148k), Stateline Youth for Christ ($91k), Rock House Kids ($53k).
Does Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, The Kjellstrom Family Foundation, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008.
Where is Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc based?
Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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