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Stillwell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUINCY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $32,800 |
| QUINCY UNIVERSITY | $9,400 |
| CHEERFUL HOME | $4,300 |
| QUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS | $4,000 |
| TRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS | $3,400 |
| CULVER STOCKTON COLLEGE | $3,300 |
| QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC | $2,900 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ADAMS COUNTY | $2,800 |
| WGCA - MOONLIGHT RIDE FOR HUNGER | $2,300 |
| RED CROSS | $2,200 |
| HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES | $2,200 |
| QUINCY ART CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +57% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- QUQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +47%
- QSQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +67%
- CHCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION QUINCY AREAone grant, 2022 · $8k
- HSHORIZON SOCIAL SERVICES OF ADAMS COone grant, 2017 · $4k
- CCCAMP CALLAHAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +32%
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.
Production of musical, theatrical, and dramatic presentations.
To promote and develop appropriate community-based services for residence, care, treatment, education, training, habitation and recreation for adult persons having a developmental disability.
The quincy telecommunications corporation inc. (qtc) was formed in 1996 to serve the communication needs of residents, educational institutions, governmental bodies and not-for-profit organizations in the city of quincy. it is charged with…
Our mission is to provide quality school age programs in a group setting, our program focuses on education, recreation, nutrtion, health, and social services for children and their families.
To help and serve at-risk teenagers in the community by offering programs and services focused on intentional mentoring, spiritual formation, and a multi-dimensional approach for teens to grow emotionally, physically, socially,…
Promoting the historical significance of the city of quincy.
The quincy humane society is committed to enriching the lives of people and pets in the communities we serve through programs and services which creates healthy companionship for all.
Serving our residents, their families, staff and the greater community through compassionate care.
To preserve and foster the traditions of quinsigamond community college.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
To promote local business in the quincy valley
Quad city arts is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the qc region through the presentation, development and celebration of the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quincy Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Camp Callahan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JACKSON-LINCOLN SWIMMING COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CAMP CALLAHAN INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · Michelmann Foundation · Hofmeister Foundation · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · Blessing Hospital · The Lindsay Family Foundation · United Way of Adams County Inc · Nuessen Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Stillwell Foundation 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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