· Private foundation
The Jw Gardner II 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION | $47,135 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOME | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $36,500 |
| QUINCY FAMILY YMCA | $30,000 |
| JACKSON LINCOLN POOL | $25,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH ILLINOIS | $20,000 |
| LOVE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DOWN COUNTRY | $20,000 |
| ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES | $11,400 |
| QUINCY ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY | $7,000 |
| ARTS QUINCY | $5,500 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $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 (FY17–25, $480k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- CHCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +57%
- QUQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +47%
- QHQUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- YAYoung America's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +44%
- PPPANTHER PRIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY ANDone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Serving our residents, their families, staff and the greater community through compassionate care.
Daycare for infants, toddlers, and preschool children.
The corporation shall receive and disburse funds, property and gifts of any kind exclusively for the benefit of the quincy humane society, inc., an illinois not-for-profit corporation, or its successor.
The quincy catholic elementary schools foundation enhances the gift of catholic education.
Our mission is to provide quality school age programs in a group setting, our program focuses on education, recreation, nutrtion, health, and social services for children and their families.
To help and serve at-risk teenagers in the community by offering programs and services focused on intentional mentoring, spiritual formation, and a multi-dimensional approach for teens to grow emotionally, physically, socially,…
Raise funds to provide scholarship grants for quincy college students.
The quincy telecommunications corporation inc. (qtc) was formed in 1996 to serve the communication needs of residents, educational institutions, governmental bodies and not-for-profit organizations in the city of quincy. it is charged with…
Through partnerships, community engagement, and advocacy for racial, social, and economic justice, we provide pathways to assist families and individuals from diverse backgrounds in their efforts to realize economic opportunity and create…
Qch is a multi-service settlement house whose mission is to provide individuals and families with the tools to enrich their lives and build healthy, inclusive communities.
To empower victims of domestic violence and sexual assault by providing comprehensive services in an atmosphere of respect and confidentiality.
To promote local business in the quincy valley
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Quincy Il and the most unlike its peers is Love Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 72 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 CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds QUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECT CHILD AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds QUINCY AREA PROJECT - GENERAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWN COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Love Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELLA EASE ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOME ↗
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 the Quincy Area · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · Michelmann Foundation · Nuessen Family Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Hofmeister Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · United Way of Adams County Inc · The Lindsay Family Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · Blessing Hospital · Quincy Medical Group Healthcare 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 Jw Gardner II 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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