· Public charity
United Way of Elgin Inc
Building community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $475,539 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $498,456 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,917 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 · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $69,539 |
| COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER | $55,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ELGIN | $40,000 |
| YWCA ELGIN | $40,000 |
| PADS OF ELGIN | $36,000 |
| CENTER FOR ECONOMIC PROGRESS | $30,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| WELL CHILD CENTER | $20,000 |
| ECKER CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $20,000 |
| ELGIN PARTNERSHIP FOR EARLY LEARNIN | $15,000 |
| LITERACY CONNECTION | $15,000 |
| ONE HOPE UNITED | $15,000 |
| EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & FOX VALLEY | $15,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCATION OF | $14,000 |
| ALIGNMENT COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUC | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $151k · revenue +190%- CCCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $134k · revenue +87%
- TYThe Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois2× · 2017–2018 · $91k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GFGREATER FAMILY HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +94%
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 Elgin Area Chamber connects communities through engagement, advocacy, collaboration, and leadership.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
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…
Provide services in response to individual need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dollywood Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 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 THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WELL CHILD CONFERENCE OF ELGIN ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
- Who funds One Hope United ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area ↗
- Who funds ALIGNMENT COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GREATER FAMILY 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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Grand Victoria Foundation · Efs Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Seigle Foundation · Hoffer Foundation · Fox Valley United Way · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Northern Illinois Food Bank
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 Elgin 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.
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