· Private foundation
Stenstrom Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $51,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| ROCKFORD PROMISE | $20,000 |
| TRANSFORM ROCKFORD | $16,500 |
| REMEDIES | $3,500 |
| CASA | $3,000 |
| ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| OSF HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VARIOUS | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- RVROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2022 · $329k · revenue +137%
- RPROCKFORD PROMISE5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue ×13
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- IEIllinois Executive Mansion Associationone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -100%
- MHMERCY HEALTH DEVEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
University of Illinois Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +127%
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 educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.
To support housing and community development ventures
Rockford Bell Credit Union is a member owned community credit union chartered by the state. We are dedicated to providing quality financial service for our membership.
The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region
The organization provides low income affordable housing under illinois housing development authority guidelines.
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…
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 Rosecrance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Transform Rockford. 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 37 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 ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PROMISE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORM ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds Illinois Executive Mansion Association ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE LIVING CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds FAIRHAVEN CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVER DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ENGINEERING INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern IL ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust · Rydell Family Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Midland States Bank Foundation · The Mill Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley
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 Stenstrom 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.
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