· Private foundation
The Johnson-Watkins Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE JOHNSON-WATKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET QUAD CITIES | $100,000 |
| MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING | $50,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| LIVING LANDS & WATERS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIGGE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| QUAD CITY ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PLAY CRAFTERS | $5,000 |
| PUTNAM MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| QC BOTANICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| GENESIS GUILD THEATER | $5,000 |
| THE MOLINE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RIVER BEND FOOD BANK | $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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- LLLIVING LANDS & WATERS8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +62%
SMILE TRAIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +19%- YYOUTHHOPE8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- CYCARMICHAEL YOUTH FAMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AYARROWHEAD YOUTH & FAMILYSone grant, 2022 · $1k
- COCITY OF MOLINEone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.
To assist members in the development of their careers and to support lasting parks and recreation systems.
PROVIDE & PRESERVE FAMILY FUN IN THE IOWA GREAT LAKES AREA through the operation of its historical amusement park, excursion boat, and maritime museum.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
The Organization's mission is to excite, engage and serve communities within the Iowa Great Lakes Region through our collections, exhibitions, performances, and educational programs; a non-profit center connecting generations of people…
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
The Western Illinois Museums mission is to nurture our local history and culture. We draw from a collection and archives that reflect the life of west central Illinois to present public programs. In 2024 the Museum presented 73 public…
Promote awareness of and appreciation for the area's history and diverse culture, and encourage people of all ages to discover, understand and celebrate the area's heritage and boundless future.
To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
The grpm exists to be a living monument of artifacts, ideas and stories told through exhibitions, events, and educational programming designed to inspire, motivate and celebrate our human bond. we enrich the lives of our community through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moline Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 40 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 BALLET QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHHOPE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCK ISLAND ↗
- Who funds PLAYCRAFTERS INC DBA PLAYCRAFTERS BARN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds MOLINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds WINNING WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds QUAD-CITY MUSIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Arrowhead Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Moline Foundation · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Modern Woodmen of America · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Charles R and Nancy L Von Maur Charitable Foundation · Joyce and Tony Singh Family Foundation · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn
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 Johnson-Watkins Family Foundation Inc 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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