· Public charity
UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC
The mission of united way of mchenry county is to unite people and resources to build a stronger mchenry county
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $743k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $204,457 |
| PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SVC | $97,500 |
| YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER OF MC | $96,787 |
| Individual grant recipient | $93,106 |
| TURNING POINT | $71,500 |
| COMMUNITY COORD CHILD CARE | $69,435 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $60,000 |
| HOME OF THE SPARROW | $50,000 |
| FAMILY HLTH PTRSHP CLINIC | $40,701 |
| DOLLY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $35,334 |
| SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES | $27,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,816 |
| SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK | $25,000 |
| ASSOC FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV | $20,000 |
| CASA OF McHENRY COUNTY | $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, $885k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TPTurning Point Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $652k · revenue +57%
- FHFamily Health Partnership Clinic9× · 2017–2025 · $453k · revenue +82%
- IHIndependence Health & Therapy4× · 2017–2020 · $422k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- AOASSOCIAION OF INDIVIDUAL DEVone grant, 2023 · $25k
- VCVOLUNTEER CTR McHENRY COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $23k
- SASALVATION ARMY GOLDER DINERSone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
Samaritan Interfaith's counseling program provides professional mental health counseling and psychological assessments and testing for adults, children, adolescents, and families from diverse backgrounds and varied financial means.
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
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,…
Counseling & support to those in need
To provide mental health and drug addiction services.
Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.
Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…
Human services, inc. is dedicated to hope, healing and recovery. we are committed to the highest quality of professional treatment programs and residential and homeless support services to the individuals, families and communities we serve…
Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Associates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Not-for-Profit Resources Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 44 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 Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds Independence Health & Therapy ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Not-For-Profit Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
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: The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Full Circle Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Inc · Foglia Family Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Willow Springs Charitable Trust Jenny B Stoddard Trustee · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lichtenheld Family Foundation · The Gerhard & Patricia Weiler Family 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 GREATER McHENRY 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.