· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Grundy County
Provide a vision for grundy county and the surrounding area in order to preserve and enhance our quality of life.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRUNDY COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $1,789,338 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,018,689 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $229,351 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $506k
- $250k+2 grants · $911k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORRIS HOSPITAL AUXILIARY & FOUNDATION | $641,071 |
| GRUNDY EUNOIA WELLNESS CENTER | $269,945 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $202,030 |
| MORRIS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $116,151 |
| CITY OF MORRIS | $110,500 |
| MORRIS HOSPITAL YMCA | $77,625 |
| VILLAGE OF MINOOKA | $43,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH | $35,000 |
| MINOOKA CHSD 111 | $28,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND | $22,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GRUNDY COUNTY | $15,809 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $14,500 |
| SPECIAL CONNECTIONS OF GRUNDY COUNTY | $13,270 |
| BEANS-AND-BITES | $13,050 |
| WE CARE OF GC | $11,427 |
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, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +43% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 17 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET7× · 2017–2025 · $607k · revenue +82%
- CCChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +10%
- WCWE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- GHGC HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $200k
- JCJOLIET CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- CCCONSERVATION COMMISSION TOWN OF HANOVER NHone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Morris Hospital exists to improve the health of area residents.
To support and serve seniors with non-medical services and to promote independent living and enrich quality of life.
To further the education of healthcare providers in the neurosciences, provide community education with an emphasis on public awareness of neurological disorders, and support and conduct clinical and pre-clinical research in the…
Guided by a tradition of personal, clinical, and technological excellence, providing coordinated services, in cooperation with other organizations, to improve the personal health and safety of all members of the community without regard to…
Charitable services for the elderly
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chestnut Health Systems Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seneca Community Food Bank. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 90 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET ↗
- Who funds Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute ↗
- Who funds WE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GRUNDY AREA PADS ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEANS-AND-BITES ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MORRIS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
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: United Way of Grundy County · United Way of Will County · Edward Jones Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Community Foundation of Grundy County 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.
- Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute — 44% of income from government
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.