· Private foundation
Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ROCKFORD | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION | $15,000 |
| GREENWOOD CEMETERY | $15,000 |
| MIDWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM | $10,500 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CORONADO | $7,000 |
| STEPPING STONES OF ROCKFORD | $7,000 |
| HOMETOWN HOLIDAY | $6,000 |
| ROCKFORD ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY20–23, $12k) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k 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
- RPROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +126%
- RUROCKFORD UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +21%
- RAREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- IWINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S BASEBALL CENTER ROCKFORD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $100k
- WLWHITEFISH LAKE CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION INC SCOTT SULLIVANone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SBSKI BRONCS INC SHOREWOOD PARKone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
To support housing and community development ventures
Bring recognition to the cultural arts and promote economic and cultural development in the downtown rockport area.
Preservation of swedish historical structure, culture and artifacts through the operations of a museum and cultural center.
Inspire communitys interest in the past
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…
The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region
Organization to build a permanent endowment for the benefit of the rockford symphony orchestra and its programs.
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
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.
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…
Rockford area community endowment is a local foundation committed to assisting rockford area residents, businesses, government and volunteer organizations to expand opportunities locally. race was founded in 1964.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midway Village & Museum Center and the most unlike its peers is Children's Safe Harbor Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERSON DELLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CORONADO ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT MUSEUM PARK ↗
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: The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Blazer Foundation · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Jeff and Shelley Shinn Foundation · Goddard Family 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 Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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