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Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust
To create an opportunity for donors to participate in scholarships and projects that improve the quality of life within our local communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $272,598 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $490,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $217,960 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY | $183,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY | $24,500 |
| STERLING ROCK FALLS FAMILY YMCA | $21,250 |
| CGH HEALTH FOUNDATION | $19,500 |
| STERLING-ROCK FALLS CHILD CARE | $12,500 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $6,250 |
| STERLING-RF HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,598 |
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 (FY24–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- WAWOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY3× · 2018–2024 · $208k · revenue +34%
- CHCGH Health Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $39k · revenue +20%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- WCWHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -21%
- SVSauk Valley Foodbankgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +33%
- COCITY OF STERLINGone grant, 2020 · $8k
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 foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.
Combining leadership and teamwork to provide caring, high quality, efficient, and affordable primary health care for all segments of the community.
To provide healthcare services in a nursing home facility, housing for the elderly, and daycare services for children
Preservation of swedish historical structure, culture and artifacts through the operations of a museum and cultural center.
To provide access to high quality, comprehensive, primary healthcare in cook county to all users, regardless of financial ability to pay for service.
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The slu chamber was formed to drive, expand, and preserve the economic, civic, and cultural development of the south lake union area for the prosperity of its people.
To enhance the quality of life of the older person, support theirindependence, encourage their involvement in the community, provide analternative to loneliness and isolation and provide a community focalpoint where older persons come…
The mission of the Walworth-Seely Public Library is to build community by engaging, educating and enriching the lives of our patrons.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
The siouxland community foundation is a trusted organization that connects people who care with causes that matter by providing a means to receive gifts and distribute grants in response to community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Sterling Rock Falls Day Care Agency Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 WOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STERLING-ROCK FALLS FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CGH Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds STERLING-ROCK FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds WHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sauk Valley Foodbank ↗
- Who funds STERLING ROCK FALLS DAY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SAUK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY IS FUN FOR EVERYONE INC ↗
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: Dillon Foundation · United Way of Whiteside County · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Kunes Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust 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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