· Private foundation
The Etnyre 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oregon Community School District | $23,680 |
| Soaring Eagle Academy (cumulative) | $9,408 |
| Lee County Council on Aging | $5,000 |
| Severson Dells Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| City of Carbondale | $5,000 |
| Daviess County TNR | $5,000 |
| Toluca Coal Mine Preservation & Development | $5,000 |
| Franklin Creek Conservation Association | $5,000 |
| The Step Up Family Center | $5,000 |
| Camp Freedom Inc | $5,000 |
| Neighborhood House Association | $5,000 |
| Teen Turf Inc | $5,000 |
| Timberwolves Youth Wrestling | $5,000 |
| Foundation for Senior Living | $5,000 |
| Freedom House | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 26% 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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 24 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- RRROCK RIVER CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +25%
- SESOARING EAGLE ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +13%
- CACANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- O2OCUSD 220one grant, 2024 · $22k
- FCFieldcrest CUSD 6one grant, 2021 · $12k
- HVHartwell VFW Post 8076one grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
To enable older persons to live in dignity and independence.
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
Providing seniors with services and programs to promote overall wellness.
To enhance the quality of life of the older person, support theirindependence, encourage their involvement in the community, provide analternative to loneliness and isolation and provide a community focalpoint where older persons come…
Enabling an aging and disabled population to remain at home by providing daytime respite care for families and caregivers
Provide veterans with holistic services designed to eliminate barriers in obtaining permanent sustainable housing.
To operate facilities throughout illinois for the long-term care of developmentally disabled residents in our intermediate care facilities and community integrated living arrangements.
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
Facility providing services and wellness for elderly in decatur and macon county, illinois
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village of Progress Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bond Public Library. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 100 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 ROCK RIVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds WICKENBURG COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOARING EAGLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CREEK CONSERVATION ASSOC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OGLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS SPECIAL RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS BLOOD BANK INC D/B/A ROCK RIVER VALLEY BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds BOND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Teen Turf Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHANA SCHOOL FOUNDATION GARY STAUFFER ↗
- Who funds DEL E WEBB CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT ↗
- Who funds OGLE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SERENITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN INC ↗
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 Northern IL · United Way of Rock River Valley · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · The Wellik Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Rochelle Area Community Foundation · United Way of Lee County Inc · The Mill Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Midland States Bank Foundation · Arizona Community 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 Etnyre 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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