· Public charity
Northwestern Il Area Agency on Aging
To enable older persons to live in dignity and independence.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $4,253,077 |
| NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY | $1,499,487 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF DEKALB COUNTY | $516,320 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOSES OF ROCKFORD | $437,725 |
| SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER | $305,618 |
| ROCK RIVER CENTER | $236,589 |
| ELDER CARE SERVICES OF DEKALB COUNTY | $220,691 |
| WHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $219,746 |
| LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $202,073 |
| BOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $146,882 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $100,000 |
| CARROLL COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC | $72,137 |
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 (FY18–24, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LCLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $24M · revenue +29% · 64% of their budget
- NINORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY6× · 2018–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +50%
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS7× · 2018–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +13%
Funded once
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.
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes
Our mission at Marinette County Elderly Services is to assist older persons in maintaining a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.
To provide services and resources to the aged citizens of kosciusko county indiana and surrounding areas including transportation, mobile meals, and senior activities to improve quality of life
Services for the aged.
Provide transportation and activities to the elderly
To provide social services White and Hamilton county )IL) senior citizens. Activities are specified under Title III of the Older Americans Act. There is also a small transportation program administered by the Illinois Department of Human…
Providing seniors with services and programs to promote overall wellness.
To enhance the quality of life of the older person, support theirindependence, encourage their involvement in the community, provide analternative to loneliness and isolation and provide a community focalpoint where older persons come…
Aging services contractor
Provide transportation, meals, activities and other services to the elderly.
Provide meals,transportation and social interaction opportunities for senior citizens living in platte county missouri
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lee County Council On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Polo Area Senior Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Stephenson County Senior Center DBA Senior Resource Center ↗
- Who funds WHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELDER CARE SERVICES OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Carroll County Senior Services Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds POLO AREA SENIOR SERVICES 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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · United Way of Rock River Valley · Amazonsmile 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 Northwestern Il Area Agency on Aging 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.
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