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The Foundation for Northwest Il at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

The Foundation for Northwest Il

To help provide for the well-being of the citizens of northwest illinois by accumulating assets in the form of permanent endowment funds & prudently distributing income from those funds to charitable organizations.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$184k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$153kPhilanthropy$131kHuman Services$125kFood & Nutrition$114kEnvironment$82kReligion$73kHealth$71kPublic Benefit$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$183,748
Median grant
—
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$183,748
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
29

Total granted

$1.4M
$345k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $672k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST IL
    3× · 2018–2021 · $131k
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2019–2021 · $89k

Funded once

  • A
    AMITY
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • RB
    RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CO
    CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2018 · $23k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $672,287 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST IL: $130,762 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $89,305 · OtherFREEPORT ART MUSEUM: $63,942 · OtherTIMBER LAKE PLAYHOUSE: $59,419 · Other+42 more: $685,601 · Other+42 more
Other$1,701,316

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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