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Stephen M Bellovics Foundation

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.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$18kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHuman Services$1kRecreation & Sports$1kPhilanthropy$850Youth Development$600Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
2
States reached
$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$500
ANNAWAN HIGH SCHOOL$300
NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL$250
ILLINOIS FOUNDATION FFA$250
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $555) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HONOR FLIGHT OF THE QUAD CITIES: $555 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27k · 10 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$27k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+3%

Still filing today

30%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +145%
  • AC
    ALLEMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2022 · $4k
  • GC
    GENESEO COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #228
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2k

Funded once

  • CL
    CONCORDIA LUTHERAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • HF
    Honor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Dammangraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $555 · revenue +28%
  • WO
    WALK ON WATER
    one grant, 2017 · $550
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Shoot Down Kids Cancer Foundation
Health
2
Gen Children's Charity

The organization sponsors a bi-annual golf event (generally, in even numbered years). net amounts raised from the event are donated to various nonprofit organizations benefiting children.

Philanthropy
3
Childrens Gaucher Research Fund

Research fund to find cure for gaucher disease.

Health
4
Charlies Champions Childhood Cancer Foundation

Help families dealing with childhood cancer

Health
5
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
6
Mark Staehely Pediatric Cancer Foundation

To support pediatric cancer research. to improve and support the lives of children with pediatric cancer and their families. to enable individuals to pursue a degree in fire science through scholarship.

Health
7
Keira Grace Foundation for Children's Cancer Inc

The purpose of the keira grace foundation is to improve the care of children with cancer in developing countries and to specifically improve survival rates of children with leukemia.

Health
8
Maggies Mission Inc

Our mission is to raise awareness and find a cure for rare pediatric cancers by granting funds to promising research endeavors. we also wish to provide relief and assistance to families dealing with rare pediatric cancer through…

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9
Destiny Stronger

To raise awareness, aid in research and support families battling childhood cancer.

Human Services
10
Kennys Kids
Philanthropy
11
Keenan's Kids Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Dr Genie's Kids Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Child Safety Council; the most unlike its peers is Seal Family Legacy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,200 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC+1 more: $500 · HealthALLEMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $4,400 · OtherALLEMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLCONCORDIA LUTHERAN ACADEMY: $2,500 · OtherCONCORDIA LUTHERAN ACADEMYGENESEO COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #228: $2,000 · OtherGENESEO COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #228ILLINOIS FOUNDATION FFA: $1,350 · OtherILLINOIS FOUNDATION FFAIndividual grant recipient: $800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANNAWAN HIGH SCHOOL: $600 · OtherWALK ON WATER: $550 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · Other+4 more: $1,005 · Other+4 moreNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $600 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $307 · Public Safety & DisasterHonor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman: $555 · Human ServicesSEAL FAMILY LEGACY INC: $500 · Public BenefitBRAVEHEART CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 · Crime & LegalGENESEO DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH INC: $300 · EducationSETH ERNST MEMORIAL SOCCER SLAM: $100 · Recreation & Sports
Health$16,700Other$13,705Public Safety & Disaster$907Human Services$555Public Benefit$500Crime & Legal$500Education$300Recreation & Sports$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman: $555 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEAL FAMILY LEGACY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRAVEHEART CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANTLEY FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $307 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF GENESEO: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Geneseo FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Geneseo FoundationIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Geneseo Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stephen M Bellovics Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen M Bellovics Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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