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Marion G Jackson Char Tr at a glance

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Marion G Jackson Char Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$607k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.0MArts & Culture$938kHealth$771kEducation$648kYouth Development$641kPublic Benefit$212kCrime & Legal$189kPhilanthropy$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $500k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS CTY$25,000
HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES OF$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $20k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $20k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $20k → 11%LIFELINE INC: $10k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME OF QUINCY: $50k → 13%THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOMEOF QUINCY: $46k → 13%THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOMEOF QUINCY: $40k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $39k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOC: $30k → 13%THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOMEOF QUINCY: $30k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME OF QUINCY: $25k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $25k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%QUANADA: $25k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOC: $25k → 13%QUANADA: $25k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $20k → 13%QUANADA: $20k → 13%QUANADA: $20k → 13%QUANADA: $20k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $20k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $20k → 13%THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOMEOF QUINCY: $16k → 13%QUANADA: $15k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 42 repeat orgs$544k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
26

Total granted

$4.3M
$519k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BH
    BLESSING HOSPITAL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $214k · revenue +55%
  • BE
    BELLA EASE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $212k · revenue +771%
  • QA
    QUINCY ART CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • QM
    QUINCY MEDICAL GROUP HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2022 · $46k
  • QP
    QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +56%
  • CA
    CHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +52%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Quincy Humane Society

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.

Animals
2
Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce

To promote local business in the quincy valley

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3
Quinnipiac University

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…

Education
4
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

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…

Community Improvement
5
Quincy House

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,…

Youth Development
6
Quincy Music Theatre Inc

Production of musical, theatrical, and dramatic presentations.

Arts & Culture
7
Quincy Catholic Elementary Schools Foundation

The quincy catholic elementary schools foundation enhances the gift of catholic education.

Education
8
Quincy After School Child Care Inc

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.

Human Services
9
The Quincy College Foundation Inc

Raise funds to provide scholarship grants for quincy college students.

Education
10
Quad City Arts Inc

Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Quest Community Development Organization Inc

Our mission is to create resilient communities and foster social equity through collaboration and service integration.

Human Services
12
Quality Trust for Individuals With Disabilities Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Quincy Area; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $346,143 · OtherJOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGEGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $265,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOISSALVATION ARMY QUINCY: $198,604 · OtherSALVATION ARMY QUINCYIndividual grant recipient: $126,306 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FAMILIES: $125,000 · OtherQUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $90,000 · OtherCHADDOCK TRAUMA SERVICES: $90,000 · Other+39 more: $1,106,888 · Other+39 moreGOOD SAMARITAN HOME OF QUINCY: $206,251 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN HOM…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $194,030 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRIST…QUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $125,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY AREA NETWOR…CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesCHEERFUL HOME ASSO…CORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI: $65,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FOUNDA…MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $60,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD BANK …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY ART CENTER: $211,000 · Arts & CultureQUINCY ART CENTERQUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $186,000 · Arts & CultureQUINCY COMMUNITY …QUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS: $116,000 · Arts & CultureQUINCY SOCIETY OF…HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY: $90,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIET…QUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $75,000 · Arts & CultureQUINCY CHILDREN'S…THE QUINCY MUSEUM INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE QUINCY MUSEUM…BLESSING HOSPITAL: $214,000 · HealthBLESSING HO…SUNSET HOME: $210,000 · HealthSUNSET HOMETRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $94,092 · HealthTRANSITIONS…BELLA EASE: $212,280 · Public BenefitQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $90,000 · EducationCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $68,750 · EducationQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA: $81,543 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $28,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,347,941Human Services$790,281Arts & Culture$743,000Health$518,092Public Benefit$212,280Education$183,750Philanthropy$109,543

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $265,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBLESSING HOSPITAL: $214,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBELLA EASE: $212,280 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetQUINCY ART CENTER: $211,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetSUNSET HOME: $210,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOME OF QUINCY: $206,251 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $194,030 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetQUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $186,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetQUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $125,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS: $116,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetTRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $94,092 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY: $90,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA: $81,543 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetQUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $75,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $68,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUINCY MUSEUM INC: $65,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI: $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: $63,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Adams Home Inc: $28,612 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $28,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetQUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTeen Challenge Illinois: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHumanity Rising Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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 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 THE QUINCY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …Michelmann FoundationThe Jw Gardner II Fou…The Cfm FoundationHofmeister FoundationNuessen Family Founda…The Lindsay Family Fo…Kunes Family Foundati…Stillwell FoundationUnited Way of Adams C…Blessing HospitalRotary Foundation of …
Community Foundation of the Quincy AreaIL51.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marion G Jackson Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion G Jackson Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 70 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-PF 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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