· Private foundation
Stenstrom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CASA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| OSF HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VARIOUS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +71% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- ELEMBRACE LIVING CHARITIESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +71%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 EMBRACE LIVING CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAIRHAVEN CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVER DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ENGINEERING INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern IL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stenstrom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stenstrom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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