· Private foundation
Nancy Nichols Olson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MARSH CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CORANADO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNA | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ROCKFORD | $1,000 |
| ST PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| RED SHED SCHOOL | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $6k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- KCKEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
- RVROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +145%
ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSINGgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +43%
- BVBLACKHAWK VALLEY REGION BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- MCMARSH CEMETARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
We create opportunity for those impacted by addiction and mental illness through innovative, compassionate, and life change care.
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To support housing and community development ventures
To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others
Rockhurst is a comprehensive university and a supportive community that forms lifelong learners in the catholic, jesuit, liberal arts tradition who engage with the complexities of our world and serve others as compassionate, thoughtful…
To receive and administer grants, gifts, donations and bequests in a manner designed to promote the activities of richfield living and ridgecrest at richfield.
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…
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…
The mission of rock island economic growth corporation is to renovate and build new single family or multi-family housing in the midwest region; to foster low-income housing that: enhances the overall image and economic vitality of the…
The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rosecrance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Village - Tiny Housing Alternatives 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 50 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 KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSING ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MISS CARLY'S INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Atwood Foundation · Jeff and Shelley Shinn 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 Nancy Nichols Olson Foundation 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.