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Northwestern Illinois Contractors Association
Promote high standards of conduct by uniting road construction contractors in nothern illinois.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $205,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $233,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,500 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC | $125,000 |
| THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREEPORT & STEPHENSON COUNTY | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $25,000 |
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, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- RCROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +28% · 100% of their budget
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREEPORT AND STEPHENSON COUNTY5× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +27%
- YOYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- JMJorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundationone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -74%
- RHROCKFORD HOME FOR RULEone grant, 2018 · $23k
- AHASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +141%
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.
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 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,…
To provide behavior guidance and promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of boy and girls in rockford, illinois and its surrounding communities by supporting the boys and girls club of rockford.
To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
At the boys & girls clubs of the red river valley, we offer innovative out-of-school time programs designed to help youth excel in school, develop strong leadership skills, and lead healthy, productive lives. our mission is to provide a…
To promote the affiliation of the university and college men and women in the city of rockford and vicinity to encourage and cultivate a social and friendly spirit among it's members.
To provide club members with a safe, supportive, fun, and enriching environment that inspires and empowers them to achieve their greatest potential. bgcmd accomplishes this mission with a foundational social- emotional learning approach…
To enable young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
Butler university, founded on ideals of equity and academic excellence, creates and fosters a collaborative, stimulating intellectual learning environment. we are inspired to boldly innovate and broadly educate, enriching communities and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club Association of Rockford and the most unlike its peers is Monmouth University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 19 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 ROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREEPORT AND STEPHENSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASTOR D RICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FREEPORT PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GROWTH DIMENSIONS FOR BELVIDERE & BOONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY AND DELLA BURPEE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Illinois Contractors Association 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.
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% 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.
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