· Public charity
Northwestern Il Area Agency on Aging
To enable older persons to live in dignity and independence.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $607k
- $250k+8 grants · $9.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,374,901 |
| NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY | $1,760,335 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF DEKALB COUNTY | $632,221 |
| SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER | $417,826 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOSES OF ROCKFORD | $406,406 |
| ROCK RIVER CENTER | $284,567 |
| LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $268,223 |
| WHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $252,919 |
| ELDER CARE SERVICES OF DEKALB COUNTY | $208,450 |
| BOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $193,455 |
| CARROLL COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC | $145,188 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $13.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $29M · revenue +35% · 65% of their budget
- NINORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY7× · 2018–2025 · $8.7M · revenue +50%
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS8× · 2018–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +13%
Funded once
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.
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.
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
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.
Our mission at Marinette County Elderly Services is to assist older persons in maintaining a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.
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…
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…
To provide information and services to maintain and improve the quality of life for senior citizens throughout Knox County, Illinois
Aging services contractor
Provide transportation services to seniors living in johnson county and other services to make their lives better.
Provide meals,transportation and social interaction opportunities for senior citizens living in platte county missouri
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · United Way of Rock River Valley · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northwestern Il Area Agency on Aging funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwestern Il Area Agency on Aging. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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