· Public charity
United Way of Adams County Inc
To inspire, unite, and empower the people of adams county to reach their full human potential.
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.
The 17 grants below total $620,792 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $635,808 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,016 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $246k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS | $80,650 |
| CHEERFUL HOME CHILD CARE & EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $59,850 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $55,000 |
| BELLA EASE | $50,000 |
| ADAMS COUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS | $48,275 |
| CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $47,000 |
| QUINCY CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $40,500 |
| YWCA | $35,000 |
| QUANADA | $32,725 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA-MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES OF ADAMS COUNTY INC | $29,000 |
| ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN | $26,000 |
| QUINCY YOUNG LIFE | $22,664 |
| QUINCY FAMILY YMCA | $22,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOR CHRIST ASSISTANCE CENTER | $20,000 |
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, $2.3M) 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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TOTRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $663k · revenue +82%
- CHCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $596k · revenue +57%
- CFCORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI9× · 2017–2025 · $493k · revenue +40%
Funded once
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.
Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations
The ywca central massachusetts is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
The organization is dedicated to providing a full range of services to help eliminate child abuse and neglect. the organization strives to build healthy families through prevention, intervention, treatment and education about alternatives…
Provide a home and the needs of children with no other place to go
Providing advocacy services for child abuse victims.
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
Mcsa provides housing, basic health care, educational and vocational support services for those in need in muscatine county while working to reduce these needs through long-term social change in the community.
The children's center for hope & healing is dedicated to breaking the cycle of child sexual abuse and preventing the victimization of children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Quincy Il and the most unlike its peers is The Panther Pride Foundation for Central Schools. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 TRANSITIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILI ↗
- Who funds BELLA EASE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds QUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF QUINCY IL ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOR CHRIST ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PANTHER PRIDE FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MADONNA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ADDICTS VICTORIOUS INC ↗
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 · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · Kunes Family Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · Quincy Medical Group Healthcare Foundation · Nuessen Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Adams County Inc 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.