· Private foundation
Marion G Jackson Char Tr
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $500k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FDN OF THE QUINCY AREA | $52,543 |
| SALVATION ARMY QUINCY | $50,000 |
| JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOMEOF QUINCY | $40,000 |
| ADAMS COUNTY COUNCIL FOR SENIOR | $40,000 |
| TRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS | $37,500 |
| QUINCY ART CENTER | $35,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $35,000 |
| BELLA EASE | $31,280 |
| HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES OF | $25,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS CTY | $25,000 |
| QUINCY NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $25,000 |
| QUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS | $21,000 |
| QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $790k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +40% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- BHBLESSING HOSPITAL6× · 2018–2023 · $214k · revenue +55%
- BEBELLA EASE7× · 2019–2025 · $212k · revenue +771%
- QAQUINCY ART CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- QMQUINCY MEDICAL GROUP HEALTHCAREone grant, 2022 · $46k
- QPQUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +56%
- CACHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +52%
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 quincy humane society is committed to enriching the lives of people and pets in the communities we serve through programs and services which creates healthy companionship for all.
To promote local business in the quincy valley
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
The quincy institute promotes ideas that move u.s. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace. qi's staff and non-resident experts expose the costs and consequences of…
To help and serve at-risk teenagers in the community by offering programs and services focused on intentional mentoring, spiritual formation, and a multi-dimensional approach for teens to grow emotionally, physically, socially,…
Production of musical, theatrical, and dramatic presentations.
The quincy catholic elementary schools foundation enhances the gift of catholic education.
Our mission is to provide quality school age programs in a group setting, our program focuses on education, recreation, nutrtion, health, and social services for children and their families.
Raise funds to provide scholarship grants for quincy college students.
Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.
Our mission is to create resilient communities and foster social equity through collaboration and service integration.
To be a force for change in the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families so they can succeed, thrive, and experience full membership in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Quincy Area and the most unlike its peers is The Quincy Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 70 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BELLA EASE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOME ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOME OF QUINCY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds QUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA ↗
- Who funds CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI ↗
- Who funds THE QUINCY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES ↗
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 the Quincy Area · Michelmann Foundation · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · Hofmeister Foundation · Nuessen Family Foundation · The Lindsay Family Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · United Way of Adams County Inc · Blessing Hospital · Rotary Foundation of Quincy
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 Marion G Jackson Char Tr 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.