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The Jw Gardner II Foundation at a glance

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The Jw Gardner II Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$997kEducation$341kArts & Culture$238kHealth$225kYouth Development$138kAnimals$117kPhilanthropy$108kRecreation & Sports$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $290k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION$47,135
GOOD SAMARITAN HOME$40,000
SALVATION ARMY$36,500
QUINCY FAMILY YMCA$30,000
JACKSON LINCOLN POOL$25,000
DOWN COUNTRY$20,000
LOVE FOUNDATION$20,000
MAKE-A-WISH ILLINOIS$20,000
ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN$20,000
HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES$11,400
CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$10,000
QUINCY ART CENTER$10,000
UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY$7,000
ARTS QUINCY$5,500
QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHEERFUL HOME: $40k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $40k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $40k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $40k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $40k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FDN: $40k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FDN: $20k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $20k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $20k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FDN: $20k → 13%CHEERFUL HOME: $20k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $16k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FDN: $15k → 13%CONNECT CHILD AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $15k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 13%CONNECT CHILD AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 13%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $4k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 38 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
30

Total granted

$2.2M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+46%

Still filing today

61%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +57%
  • QU
    QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +47%
  • QH
    QUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • PP
    PANTHER PRIDE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • YA
    Young America's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +44%
  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY AND
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Good Samaritan Home of Quincy

Serving our residents, their families, staff and the greater community through compassionate care.

Human Services
2
Greater Quincy Child Care Center Inc

Daycare for infants, toddlers, and preschool children.

Human Services
3
Quincy Humane Society Endowment % Sally Westerhoff

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.

Animals
4
Quincy Catholic Elementary Schools Foundation

The quincy catholic elementary schools foundation enhances the gift of catholic education.

Education
5
Quincy After School Child Care Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Quincy House

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,…

Youth Development
7
The Quincy College Foundation Inc

Raise funds to provide scholarship grants for quincy college students.

Education
8
Quincy Telecommunications Corporation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Quincy Community Action Programs Inc

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…

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10
Queens Community House

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.

Human Services
11
Quincy Area Network Against Domestic Abuse

To empower victims of domestic violence and sexual assault by providing comprehensive services in an atmosphere of respect and confidentiality.

Human Services
12
Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce

To promote local business in the quincy valley

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Quincy Il; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $338,924 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $100,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INCGOOD SAMARITAN HOME: $85,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HOMEJACKSON LINCOLN POOL: $81,000 · OtherJACKSON LINCOLN POOLCHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES: $69,181 · OtherQUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 · OtherADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: $55,000 · Other+44 more: $512,522 · Other+44 moreCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $260,000 · Human ServicesCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIA…GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $95,247 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN HOME F…CORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI: $60,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FOUNDATIO…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…CONNECT CHILD AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $25,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $216,443 · EducationQUINCY UNI…+2 more: $8,000 · EducationQUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY: $111,940 · AnimalsQUINCY AREA COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $5,000 · AnimalsQUINCY ART CENTER: $63,000 · Arts & CultureQUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE QUINCY MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureQUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $3,900 · Arts & CultureTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $35,773 · HealthTRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $33,300 · HealthDOWN COUNTRY: $20,000 · HealthSUNSET HOME: $16,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $106,900 · Philanthropy
Other$1,346,627Human Services$480,247Education$224,443Animals$116,940Arts & Culture$116,900Health$108,073Philanthropy$106,900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $260,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $216,443 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetQUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY: $111,940 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $106,900 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $100,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $95,247 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES: $69,181 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetQUINCY ART CENTER: $63,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI: $60,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: $55,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetQUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $35,773 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC: $33,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECT CHILD AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetQUINCY AREA PROJECT - GENERAL FUND: $22,600 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLA EASE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES: $16,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSUNSET HOME: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF QUINCY IL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetQUINCY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetQUINCY AREA COMMUNITY CAT COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetQUINCY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $3,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of 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.

  • 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 DOWN COUNTRY ↗
  • Who funds Love Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BELLA EASE ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SUNSET HOME ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Marion G Jackson Char…Michelmann FoundationNuessen Family Founda…Kunes Family Foundati…Hofmeister FoundationThe Cfm FoundationUnited Way of Adams C…The Lindsay Family Fo…Stillwell FoundationBlessing HospitalQuincy Medical Group …
Community Foundation of the Quincy AreaIL53.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jw Gardner II Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jw Gardner II Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jw Gardner II Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jw Gardner II Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 72 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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