· Community foundation
Rochelle Area Community Foundation
To provide grants to various organizations supporting the arts, education, health and community
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Rochelle Area Community Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Rochelle Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Rochelle Area Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $163k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $163,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $179,183 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,883 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCHELLE CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY | $27,650 |
| KITCHEN TABLE INC | $17,900 |
| FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT | $17,500 |
| FLAGG-ROCHELLE COMMUNITY PARK DISTRICT | $15,000 |
| 4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE | $13,900 |
| NORTHERN IL FOOD BANK | $12,800 |
| HUB CITY SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $12,000 |
| HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY | $12,000 |
| LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE OF PROGRESS INC | $8,000 |
| BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN INC | $6,000 |
| ROCHELLE RESCUE MISSION | $5,550 |
| SINNISSIPPI CENTERS INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
- OVOTHER VARIOUS GRANTS5× · 2017–2023 · $277k
- RCROCHELLE CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY2× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue -15%
- RRROCHELLE RESCUE MISSION4× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- CBCRESTON BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2019 · $9k
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.
The mission of the henry hosea house is to provide food and nourishment for the bodies and souls of the men, women, and children of the northern kentucky/cincinnati area. we are a cooperative ecumenical nonprofit agency made up of…
Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.
To offer meaningful opportunities to adults with disabilities and their families so they may achieve their goals for quality lives and community inclusion.
Provide food to residents of Roselle, Medinah, and Bloomingdale to those that are in need.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Programs designed to serve the community's needs including a soup kitchen, family shelter, inns, food pantry, and other services.
Providing food for people who are hungry, conversation for people who are lonely, rest for people who are struggling, and a voice for people in need.
The organization provides meals for elderly and disadvantaged individuals.
Provide emergency food, housing and utilities for people in need in the community
Food service for the poor, economically disadvantaged, and elderly.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible, child care in a developmentally appropriate learning environment. the program is committed to the holistic development of the individual child through a broad range of educational programs, which…
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village of Progress Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hub City Senior Citizens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 ROCHELLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHELLE CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ROCHELLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SINNISSIPPI CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HUB CITY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN 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: United Way of Rock River Valley · United Way of Lee County Inc · The Etnyre Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Northern Illinois Food Bank · 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 Rochelle Area Community 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.
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.