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Rotary Foundation of Quincy at a glance

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Rotary Foundation of Quincy

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$80kEducation$48kEnvironment$35kArts & Culture$25kCommunity Improvement$15kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$670Youth Development$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY ADAM$25,000
JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WEST CENTRAL CHILDCARE CONNECTION: $1k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $500 → 13%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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 3 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 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

3
13

Total granted

$110k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • QP
    QUINCY PARK BOARD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +22%
  • JW
    JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF QUINCY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • PO
    PIN OAK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • QP
    QUINCY PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • QP
    QUINCY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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2
Greater Quincy Child Care Center Inc

Daycare for infants, toddlers, and preschool children.

Human Services
3
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
4
Adams County Children's Advocacy Center

To meet the needs of children and families in our community by providing a community based, child focused center that facilitates a compassionate multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, identification, investigation, prosecution and…

Crime & Legal
5
Advocates for Illinois Children

Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.

Human Services
6
United Way of Central Illinois Inc

The united way of central illinois, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to improve lives by uniting our community to adress the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person. vision: building…

Philanthropy
7
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services
8
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
9
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
10
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
11
County North Children's Center Inc

To offer quality child care at affordable prices.

Human Services
12
Country Childrens Center Inc

To provide quality day care on a year round basis for children of working families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Central Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Quincy Park Board Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIN OAK FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherPIN OAK FOUNDATION INCJOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT: $35,000 · OtherJOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY ADAM: $25,000 · OtherHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY ADAMQUINCY PARK DISTRICT: $20,145 · OtherQUINCY PARK DISTRICTROTARY CLUB OF QUINCY: $15,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF QUINCYQUINCY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherQUINCY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION+5 more: $2,494 · OtherQUINCY PARK BOARD FOUNDATION: $60,232 · Recreation & SportsQUINCY PARK BOARD FOUNDATIONWebster University: $2,500 · EducationWEST CENTRAL CHILD CARE CONNECTION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $670 · PhilanthropyADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: $330 · Civil Rights
Other$142,639Recreation & Sports$60,232Education$2,500Human Services$1,500Philanthropy$670Civil Rights$330

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUINCY PARK BOARD FOUNDATION: $60,232 over 3y, 13% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF QUINCY: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWebster University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CENTRAL CHILD CARE CONNECTION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: $330 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Marion G Jackson Char…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the Quincy AreaIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · 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 Rotary Foundation of Quincy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Foundation of Quincy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Rotary Foundation of Quincy?

    Find your warmest path to Rotary Foundation of Quincy 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 17 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-PF 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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