Illinois · Private foundation
Stenstrom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Stenstrom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $125k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $111k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $123k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $71k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $76k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $109k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $117k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $183k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Valley College Foundation | $328,500 | 4 | 7% |
| Rockford Promise | $134,500 | 5 | 14% |
| Boys & Girls Club Association of Rockford | $55,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rosecrance Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Transform Rockford | $26,500 | 3 | 11% |
| SwedishAmerican Health Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Carpenter's Place Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| OSF Healthcare Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Illinois Executive Mansion Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Valley College Foundation | $328,500 | 4 | 7% |
| Rockford Promise | $134,500 | 5 | 14% |
| Boys & Girls Club Association of Rockford | $55,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rosecrance Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Transform Rockford | $26,500 | 3 | 11% |
| SwedishAmerican Health Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Carpenter's Place Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| OSF Healthcare Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Illinois Executive Mansion Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Embrace Living Charities | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Fairhaven Christian Retirement Center | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| River District | $750 | 1 | 1% |
| Winnebago County Casa | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Comprehensive Community Solutions Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Illinois Engineering Initiative | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($346k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stenstrom Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Stenstrom Foundation
- How much does Stenstrom Foundation give?
- Stenstrom Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $124,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stenstrom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Youth Development (12%), Health (8%).
- Who are Stenstrom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rock Valley College Foundation ($329k), Rockford Promise ($135k), Boys & Girls Club Association of Rockford ($55k).
- Does Stenstrom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stenstrom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stenstrom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008, John T Wolf Charitable Trust II.
- Where is Stenstrom Foundation based?
- Stenstrom Foundation is based in IL.
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