· 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.
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 $10k54 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER OF ROCK ISLAND | $21,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP MANOR | $18,500 |
| ROCK ISLAND PARKS DEPARTMENT | $17,500 |
| YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES | $16,000 |
| ROCK ISLAND LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER | $12,084 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,523 |
| ROCK ISLAND - MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,500 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER | $4,500 |
| HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES | $4,000 |
| CF YOUTH HOPE | $4,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISAND COUNTY | $3,500 |
| PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER | $2,500 |
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, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
102 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 10 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- YOYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES7× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +292%
- RIROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +92%
- CCCHRISTIAN CARE7× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- MFMOLINE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- LILIFELINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +244%
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.
Qci is a community of people living out our faith and values collectively to transform our society and bring about justice and human dignity locally and regionally. qci exists to empower ordinary people to effectively participate in the…
The trust shall be exclusively for the charitable, cultural, literary, scientific, and educational purposes necessary to provide support to irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations located in davenport, iowa and rock island, illinois.
The organization supports the general prosperity of rock island county, illinois and the surrounding illinois quad cities area.
To secure equal opportunities for all disadvantaged persons and people of color, including African Americans, women and persons with disabilities and advocating and establishing programs that facilitate the social and economic growth of…
The project of the quad cities, inc mission is to enhance the quality of life in our communities and reduce health disparities by providing a full spectrum of services including advocacy, care, testing, education, counseling, referrals and…
The quad cities open network (qcon) is a collaboration of public service organizations working together to increse community well-being through a strong human services sector.
To empower people with disabilities to believe in their own unique abilities and achieve their full potential by providing quality, innovative services that focus on advocacy, inclusion, independence, employment, meaningful community life…
The king center inspires greatness in the quad cities through community- building, service and education. our vision is a thriving beloved community rooted in equity, justice and respect for one another.
The purpose of the organization is to advance the general welfare and prosperity of scott county, iowa and the surrounding iowa quad cities area.
To enrich the quality of life within the diverse population of northwest rockford.
Together Making a Better Community is the hub for resources, professional services, programs and events for the community in the Quad Cities.
The quad cities region is comprised of multiple municipalities located in illinois and iowa. having multiple jurisdictions and oversight entities has resulted in fragmented and duplicative use of scarce resources diminishing regional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Douglas Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 164 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 YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CARE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHHOPE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Heart of Hope Ministries ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOLINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT YOUNG CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
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 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
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 Rock Island Community 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.