Illinois · Private foundation
The Rock Island Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $233k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 67
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Rock Island Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 62 | $233k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $216k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $211k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $214k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $176k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $106k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $110k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 62 | $111k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| YWCA of the Quad Cities | $80,650 | 7 | 1% |
| Quad City Botanical Center Foundation | $67,584 | 8 | 1% |
| Rock Island-Milan Education Foundation | $50,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Christian Care | $45,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Youthhope | $37,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Friendship Manor Inc | $34,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Two Rivers YMCA Inc | $33,333 | 8 | 0% |
| Quad City Symphony Orchestra Association | $25,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Ballet Quad Cities | $22,400 | 9 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa | $22,300 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($626k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rock Island Community Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Moline Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Scott County Regional Authority · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Modern Woodmen of America
How this is measured
Compare The Rock Island Community Foundation with peer funders
About The Rock Island Community Foundation
- How much does The Rock Island Community Foundation give?
- The Rock Island Community Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $232,632 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Rock Island Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Education (13%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are The Rock Island Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YWCA of the Quad Cities ($81k), Quad City Botanical Center Foundation ($68k), Rock Island-Milan Education Foundation ($50k).
- Does The Rock Island Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rock Island Community Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Rock Island Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Quad Cities Community Foundation, Rauch Family Foundation I Inc, Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Rock Island Community Foundation based?
- The Rock Island Community Foundation is based in IL.
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