· Private foundation
Stillwell 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 $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 |
| HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES | $2,200 |
| RED CROSS | $2,200 |
| QUINCY ART CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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 +57% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stillwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stillwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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