How much did THE ROCK ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of THE ROCK ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

church association'sinspires girlssupports churchemergency

2020

free

2021

adultsat-riskfreesupports well-being

2022

housingfreelives

2023

housinglives

2024

spacewide varietycancerdedicatedhealingjusticeachieve

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k61 grants · $114k
$10k–50k7 grants · $102k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER OF ROCK ISLAND$20,000
ROCK ISLAND LIBRARY FOUNDATION$17,500
YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES$17,500
ROCK ISLAND PARKS DEPARTMENT$15,000
UNITY POINT VNA$12,000
NIABI ZOO$10,000
QUAD CITY BOTANICAL CENTER$10,000
ROCK ISLAND - MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$7,500
TWO RIVERS YMCA$5,333
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER$4,000
YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISAND COUNTY$3,500
CF YOUTH HOPE$3,000
DORIS & VICTOR DAY FOUNDATION$2,888
NORMA LEAH OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE$2,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 90 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

90 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+19%

Still filing today

33%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

YO
YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES
5× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +212%
CC
CHRISTIAN CARE
6× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +3%
RI
ROCK ISLAND - MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +31%

Funded once

TM
THE MOLINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +188%
UP
UNITY PAINT VNA
one grant, 2021 · $8k
LL
LIFE LINE PILOTS
one grant, 2021 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Quad Cities Cultural & Educational

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.

Philanthropy

The Arc of the Quad Cities Area

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…

Human Services

Queen City Performing Arts

A. the chorus seeks to provide social and fellowship experiences that reach beyond the realm of musical purpose to deepen and enrich our lives. further, we provide opportunities to present a positive image of the glbtq+ community to the…

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Quad Cities Chamber Foundation -

The organization supports the general prosperity of rock island county, illinois and the surrounding illinois quad cities area.

Philanthropy

University of Dubuque

Post secondary and graduate level education

Education

Quad Cities Community Foundation

Quad cities community foundation is a collection of endowments and other charitable funds. 4.5% of the rolling 20 quarter average balance is distributed to nonprofit organizations in our region with a goal of "transforming our region…

Philanthropy

Dubuque County Historical Society

To interpret and protect the life, history and culture of our region and rivers.

Arts & Culture

Quad Cities Chamber Foundation -

The purpose of the organization is to advance the general welfare and prosperity of scott county, iowa and the surrounding iowa quad cities area.

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Quincy Art Center

We connect people to the power of art by creating opportunities to experience, make, and share art.

Arts & Culture

Dubuque Museum of Art

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; and to adhere to…

Arts & Culture

Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors

Promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque area

Community Improvement

Quad Cities Interfaith

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Putnam Museum and Science Center. 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 38 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/51

the rest of the field

171/2,530

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.

05the grantee network

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/47

Grantees still filing

36/47

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$881,187Arts & Culture$62,800Human Services$60,349Environment$50,500Housing & Shelter$44,500Education$24,600Crime & Legal$21,000

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.

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.

Quad Cities Community FoundationIA87.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Moline Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Harold R Bechtel Charitable · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Grant & Virginia Brissman · Modern Woodmen of America · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: QC UNITED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 900419639 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on QC UNITED, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Rock Island Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rock Island Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ROCK ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rock Island Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE ROCK ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rock Island Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph