· Public charity
United Way of Eastern la Salle County Inc
United way of easern lasalle county supports over 40 health & human service programs through its participation agencies.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of UNITED WAY OF EASTERN LA SALLE COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $80,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $177,562 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,512 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU OF IV | $22,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER | $15,000 |
| SAFE JOURNEYS | $12,000 |
| A SERVANTS HEART | $11,050 |
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 (FY17–26, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2026, 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
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS7× · 2017–2026 · $85k · revenue +13%
- SJSAFE JOURNEYS6× · 2017–2026 · $68k · revenue +176%
- YOYMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS2× · 2017–2021 · $52k · revenue +241%
Funded once
- OFOTTAWA FRIENDSHIP HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $22k
- OOOTTAWA OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +19%
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ILLINOIS VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +118%
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.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
The Youth Service Bureau provides services to at-risk youth who are, or are at risk of becoming, runaway, abused, neglected and/or homeless. Services are also available for their family members.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Social services for the elderly of iroquois county. to provide basic services including homemaker, mobile meals, telecare, van trips and outreach.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Drawing from religious, business, civic and individual resources, the Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers program works to meet two mutually entwined and equally important purposes: to respond to the ever-growing needs of older and physically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for the Older Adult Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Food Basket. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 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 VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SAFE JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds A SERVANTS HEART ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ILLINOIS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
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: Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust · The Covia Foundation · United Way of Illinois Valley · Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Eastern la Salle 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.