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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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$57kArts & Culture$36kReligion$29kHealth$9kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$9kEnvironment$6kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $3k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
WI
NY
IN
VA
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$144k · 17 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
30

Total granted

$144k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+57%

Still filing today

53%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • KC
    KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • RV
    ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +145%
  • ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSINGgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • BV
    BLACKHAWK VALLEY REGION BOY SCOUTS
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • MC
    MARSH CEMETARY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rockford Day Nursery

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.

Human Services
2
Rimrock Foundation

We create opportunity for those impacted by addiction and mental illness through innovative, compassionate, and life change care.

3
Rockford University

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,…

Education
4
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

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.

Health
5
Rockford Community Investment Fund

To support housing and community development ventures

Community Improvement
6
Rockford Christian Education Association

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

Education
7
Rockhurst University

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…

Education
8
Richfield Foundation

To receive and administer grants, gifts, donations and bequests in a manner designed to promote the activities of richfield living and ridgecrest at richfield.

9
Rockford Promise

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…

Education
10
The Rockford Institute

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…

11
Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Rockford Area Economic Development Council Inc

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsPublic University Foundatio…Community Arts OrganizationsYmca Community CentersVeteran Support ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsDevelopmental Disabilities …Land Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%13%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr22%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%46%35–55yr22%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
12%
8,890/72,334

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherKEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLMARSH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · OtherMARSH CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONSECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $24,000 · OtherSECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · OtherALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INCBOYLAN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $7,000 · OtherBOYLAN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $6,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,500 · OtherTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSING — $5,000 · Other+33 more — $24,310 · Other+33 moreROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,250 · EducationROCK VALL…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $3,000 · PhilanthropyROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EnvironmentYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $5,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $500 · Human ServicesHOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterMISS CARLY'S INC — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$130,810Education$14,250Philanthropy$7,500Environment$6,000Human Services$5,500Housing & Shelter$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISS CARLY'S INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Tracy E Anderson Charitable FoundationIL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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