Illinois · Community foundation
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.
- $370k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $111k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $111k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $273k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $123k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $76k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $42k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $62k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $43k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $59k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling-Rock Falls Family YMCA | $225,750 | 8 | 2% |
| Woodlawn Arts Academy | $207,937 | 3 | 19% |
| United Way of Whiteside County | $130,125 | 6 | 5% |
| CGH Health Foundation | $58,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $43,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society | $37,081 | 6 | 13% |
| Sterling Rock Falls Day Care Agency Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Whiteside County Senior Center | $17,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Sauk Valley Foodbank | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sterling Riverfront Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling-Rock Falls Family YMCA | $225,750 | 8 | 2% |
| Woodlawn Arts Academy | $207,937 | 3 | 19% |
| United Way of Whiteside County | $130,125 | 6 | 5% |
| CGH Health Foundation | $58,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Illinois | $43,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society | $37,081 | 6 | 13% |
| Sterling Rock Falls Day Care Agency Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Whiteside County Senior Center | $17,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Sauk Valley Foodbank | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sterling Riverfront Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Sterling | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sauk Valley College Foundation | $6,625 | 1 | 0% |
| Literacy Is Fun for Everyone Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 8% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust?
Find your warmest path to Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust
- How much does Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust give?
- Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust reported 7 itemized grants totaling $111,067, out of $370,367 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Arts & Culture (35%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Sterling-Rock Falls Family YMCA ($226k), Woodlawn Arts Academy ($208k), United Way of Whiteside County ($130k).
- Does Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dillon Foundation, United Way of Whiteside County, Quad Cities Community Foundation.
- Where is Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust based?
- Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust is based in IL.
Play a game based on Sterling Rock Falls’ filings →