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Northwestern Illinois Contractors Association at a glance

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Northwestern Illinois Contractors Association

Promote high standards of conduct by uniting road construction contractors in nothern illinois.

$234k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.0MYouth Development$205kHuman Services$110kEducation$87kArts & Culture$25kPublic Benefit$23kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $205,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $233,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC$125,000
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREEPORT & STEPHENSON COUNTY$30,000
YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JORGE MAS CANOSA FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $30k → 15%WOMENSPACE: $5k → 15%MILESTONE: $5k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $25k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $25k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 5 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RC
    ROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +28% · 100% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREEPORT AND STEPHENSON COUNTY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +27%
  • YO
    YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • JM
    Jorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -74%
  • RH
    ROCKFORD HOME FOR RULE
    one grant, 2018 · $23k
  • AH
    ASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +141%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Boys & Girls Club Foundation

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.

Youth Development
4
Transform Rockford
Community Improvement
5
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities

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.

Youth Development
6
The Trustees of Grinnell College

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…

Education
7
Ymca of Northern Rock County Inc

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

—
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley

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…

Youth Development
9
University Club of Rockford

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.

—
10
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc

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…

—
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Peoria Inc

To enable young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
12
Butler University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club Association of Rockford; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC: $975,000 · Community ImprovementROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREEPORT AND STEPHENSON COUNTY: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…THE ASTOR D RICE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ASTOR D RIC…YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $70,000 · Human ServicesJorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundation: $30,000 · Human ServicesMILESTONE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOMANSPACE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 · EducationROCKFORD HOME FOR RULE: $22,500 · OtherMASTER BUILDERS MASONIC LODGE: $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD: $10,000 · OtherROCKFORD AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · OtherGROWTH DIMENSIONS FOR BELVIDERE & BOONE COUNTY INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherASPIRE HIGHER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHARRY AND DELLA BURPEE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$985,000Youth Development$195,000Human Services$110,000Education$72,000Other$68,500Arts & Culture$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKFORD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT INC: $975,000 over 9y, 100% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREEPORT AND STEPHENSON COUNTY: $155,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetJorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ASTOR D RICE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKFORD AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER FREEPORT PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGROWTH DIMENSIONS FOR BELVIDERE & BOONE COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHARRY AND DELLA BURPEE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMILESTONE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMANSPACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Kjellstrom Family…Community Foundation …The David & Colleen A…John & Linda Anderson…Jeffrey R Anderson Ch…Blazer FoundationKristin L Anderson Ch…Tracy E Anderson Char…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Kjellstrom Family FoundationIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northwestern Illinois Contractors Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwestern Illinois Contractors Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Northwestern Illinois Contractors Association?

Find your warmest path to Northwestern Illinois Contractors Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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