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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $1,191,298 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,292,283 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,985 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $788k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $372k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY HEALTH PARNERSHIP CLINIC | $166,646 |
| CITY OF WOODSTOCK | $94,211 |
| WARP CORPS L3C | $61,359 |
| WOODSTOCK FOOD PANTRY | $50,000 |
| VETERANS PATH TO HOPE | $40,000 |
| THE BREAK | $37,500 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS ADDICTION RECOVERY | $35,000 |
| 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT - OFFICE OF | $30,827 |
| THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY | $30,230 |
| FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY | $30,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE HEALTH & THERAPY | $29,797 |
| TOBY'S FUND FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH | $28,702 |
| NAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $28,127 |
| PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $27,500 |
| MAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM | $26,526 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 13 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- FHFamily Health Partnership Clinic8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +82%
- MSMAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $600k · revenue +21% · 34% of their budget
- PCPioneer Center for Human Services8× · 2018–2025 · $557k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicagoone grant, 2021 · $79k · revenue +8%
- CLCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER FORone grant, 2021 · $70k
- OMONE MILLION MONARCHS INC NFPone grant, 2022 · $61k
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 low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Teach people to grow food in responsible, sustainable ways while nurturing love and gratitude for the land and for each other. Programs are open to the public, free of charge. Food raised will be donated to food pantries.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
To provide support and assistance to community driven programs and services that seek to improve the quality of life for youth, families and communities.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…
Promote responsible sustainable homeownership, with an emphasis on serving first time homebuyers, low and moderate income households and homeowners in crisis.
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
Counseling & support to those in need
To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Mchenry Cou and the most unlike its peers is Your Childrens Bookshelf. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 133 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 Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds MAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Center for Human Services ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Independence Health & Therapy ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HARVARD COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Services Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER OF McHENRY CTY ↗
- Who funds New Directions Addiction Recovery Services ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds RAUE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Not-For-Profit Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MCHENRY COU ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF MCHENRY CO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS OF McHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GREATER MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Inc ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
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: 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
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 The Community Foundation for McHenry County 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.