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Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities
TO PROVIDE A FREE RECREATIONAL & EDUCATIONAL CAMP Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| RIVERS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO REGIONAL FOOD DEPOS | $2,000 |
| CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | $2,000 |
| PEORIA AREA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL CRISIS RESPONSE CANINES | $2,000 |
| RIVER BEND FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| PEANUT BUTTER & JESUS | $1,000 |
| OTTAWA FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $1,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY DRUG COURT | $1,000 |
| CAIRS CARBONDALE INTERFAITH REFUGEE | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 21 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- COCASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue -6%
- NCNATIONAL CRISIS RESPONSE CANINES2× · 2024–2025 · $3k
- KCKNOX COUNTY DRUG COURT3× · 2023–2025 · $3k
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOISone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
Provide emergency food and shelter
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
Leading siouxland in the fight against hunger
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
Our mission at the Sauk Valley Foodbank is to help alleviate food insecurity in the Sauk Valley area.
The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Memorial Home Corp. 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 38 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PEANUT BUTTER & JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds BENSENVILLE WOOD DALE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS OF LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds American Legion Memorial Home Corp ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Illinois Police Association Sherwood Charities 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.
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