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Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation

The mission of ROCK ISLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION is to renovate and build new single family or multi-family housing in the midwest region; to foster low-income housing that: enhances the overall image and economic vitality of the region; improves housing market dynamics in the region, especially in its older, blighted…

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$176kArts & Culture$45kHealth$15kHuman Services$12kEducation$5k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,059,336 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,009,336 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.
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVING LANDS & WATERS$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $7k) 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%ROCK ISLAND COMMUNITY CARING CONFERENCE: $7k → 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 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.

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Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation

The mission of rock island economic growth corporation is to renovate and build new single family or multi-family housing in the midwest region; to foster low-income housing that: enhances the overall image and economic vitality of the…

Housing & Shelter
2
Rockford Area Economic Development Council Inc

The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region

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3
Martin Luther King Jr Center Inc

The king center inspires greatness in the quad cities through community- building, service and education. our vision is a thriving beloved community rooted in equity, justice and respect for one another.

Youth Development
4
Rockport Cultural Arts District

Bring recognition to the cultural arts and promote economic and cultural development in the downtown rockport area.

Arts & Culture
5
Quad Cities Cultural & Educational Supporting Charitable Trust

The trust shall be exclusively for the charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational purposes necessary to provide support to irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations located in davenport, iowa and rock island, illinois.

Philanthropy
6
Development Association of Rock Island

To promote commercial, industrial, and recreational development through ownership or management of businesses and properties, or by providing businesses assistance to enhance the tax base and quality of life in rock island, illinois.

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7
Riverside Arts Center

Through free exhibitions, arts education and life-long learning for all ages, rac is an advocate for the vital role the arts play in nurturing community, amplifying diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.

Arts & Culture
8
The Rockford Institute

To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…

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9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives

The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region

Community Improvement
11
The Rock Island Community Foundation
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12
Regional Arts & Culture Council

To enrich our communities through arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Indian Center; the most unlike its peers is Rock Island Community Caring Conference. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF STERLING: $125,840 · OtherCITY OF STERLINGQUAD CITIES BALLET FOLKLORICO: $5,000 · OtherSAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5,000 · OtherROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $50,000 · EnvironmentLIVING LANDS & WATERSNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATI…QUAD CITY ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY ARTS IN…AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INDIAN C…COMMON CHORD: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON CHORDTHE ROBERT YOUNG CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthTRANSITIONS NFP: $5,000 · HealthROCK ISLAND COMMUNITY CARING CONFERENCE: $6,500 · Human Services
Other$140,840Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$40,000Health$15,000Human Services$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROBERT YOUNG CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITIONS NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUAD CITY ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON CHORD: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

Quad Cities Community…The Rock Island Commu…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Doris & Victor Day Fo…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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