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The Community Foundation for McHenry County
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY's mission is to philanthropically address the needs of mchenry county by providing leadership, granting resources, stewarding assets, and fostering awareness.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $166,646
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Community Foundation for McHenry County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 | 46 | $1.2M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $1.8M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $2.1M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Health Partnership Clinic | $1,260,219 | 8 | 17% |
| Main Stay Therapeutic Farm Inc | $600,097 | 8 | 34% |
| Pioneer Center for Human Services | $557,285 | 8 | 1% |
| Home of the Sparrow Inc | $525,007 | 8 | 2% |
| Independence Health & Therapy | $332,853 | 8 | 3% |
| The Land Conservancy of McHenry County | $313,963 | 8 | 10% |
| Casa of McHenry County Inc | $280,800 | 8 | 12% |
| City of Woodstock | $275,841 | 6 | n/a |
| Turning Point Inc | $266,675 | 8 | 4% |
| Friends of McHenry County College Foundation | $264,197 | 5 | 11% |
Show all 131 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Community Foundation for McHenry County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Foglia Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Full Circle Foundation · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Inc · The Bersted Foundation · Willow Springs Charitable Trust Jenny B Stoddard Trustee · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Bunker Hill Charities · Kunes Family Foundation · UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC · The Gerhard & Patricia Weiler Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Community Foundation for McHenry County
- How much does The Community Foundation for McHenry County give?
- The Community Foundation for McHenry County reported 46 itemized grants totaling $1,191,298, out of $1,292,283 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Community Foundation for McHenry County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (22%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are The Community Foundation for McHenry County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Family Health Partnership Clinic ($1.3M), Main Stay Therapeutic Farm Inc ($600k), Pioneer Center for Human Services ($557k).
- Does The Community Foundation for McHenry County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Community Foundation for McHenry County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foglia Family Foundation, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group, Full Circle Foundation.
- Where is The Community Foundation for McHenry County based?
- The Community Foundation for McHenry County is based in IL.
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