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United Way of Elgin Inc

Building community.

$498k
Granted FY2018
21
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$394kArts & Culture$151kHealth$113kFood & Nutrition$79kEducation$73kHousing & Shelter$72kYouth Development$65kCommunity Improvement$38kOther$0
02FY2018 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $475,539, the rows itemized in this filing. The $498,456 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,917 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $336k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER: $58k → 14%COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER: $55k → 14%YWCA ELGIN: $51k → 14%YWCA ELGIN: $40k → 14%ONE HOPE UNITED: $15k → 14%ONE HOPE UNITED: $15k → 14%ASSN FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 8%ASSN FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$959k · 18 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$959k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+94%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $151k · revenue +190%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $134k · revenue +87%
  • TY
    The Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois
    2× · 2017–2018 · $91k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • GF
    GREATER FAMILY HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +94%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce

The Elgin Area Chamber connects communities through engagement, advocacy, collaboration, and leadership.

Community Improvement
2
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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3
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services
4
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
5
Child & Family Service of Saginaw

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…

Human Services
6
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

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.

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7
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

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.

Health
8
Center for Family Services

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…

Human Services
9
Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc

We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.

Human Services
10
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
11
Central Illinois Agency On Aging Inc

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…

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12
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Crisis Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $151,349 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR ECONOMIC PROGRESS: $77,500 · OtherCENTER FOR ECONOMIC PROGRESSBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $65,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INCECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $53,300 · OtherECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCWELL CHILD CONFERENCE OF ELGIN: $42,500 · OtherWELL CHILD CONFERENCE OF ELGINFamily Service Association of Greater Elgin Area: $29,000 · OtherFamily Service Association of Greater Elgin AreaSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC: $27,000 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INCSalvation Army Metropolitan Chicago: $22,000 · Other+1 more: $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC: $134,200 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INCThe Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois: $91,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Womens Christian Asso…One Hope United: $30,000 · Human ServicesOne Hope UnitedASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVE…PADS OF ELGIN INC: $72,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE LITERACY CONNECTION: $30,000 · EducationALIGNMENT COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION INC: $27,500 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $17,000 · Food & NutritionEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION: $30,000 · HealthGREATER FAMILY HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$482,649Human Services$275,200Housing & Shelter$72,000Education$57,500Food & Nutrition$57,000Health$40,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $151,349 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC: $134,200 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois: $91,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC PROGRESS: $77,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $53,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOne Hope United: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY CONNECTION: $30,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetALIGNMENT COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION INC: $27,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER FAMILY HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Metropo…Grand Victoria Founda…Efs FoundationCommunity Foundation …Harvey and Ethel Daeu…The Chicago Community…Seigle FoundationHoffer FoundationFox Valley United WayThe Bersted FoundationNorthwestern Memorial…Northern Illinois Foo…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL38× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Elgin Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Elgin Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to United Way of Elgin Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Elgin Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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