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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

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.8MHealth$1.9MYouth Development$1.0MCommunity Improvement$624kHousing & Shelter$359kCrime & Legal$338kEducation$35kPublic Benefit$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $743k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$829k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$20,000
ASSOC FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ASSOC FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $25k → 8%ASSOC FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV: $20k → 8%TURNING POINT: $95k → 6%TURNING POINT: $95k → 6%TURNING POINT: $86k → 6%TURNING POINT: $85k → 6%TURNING POINT: $85k → 6%TURNING POINT: $72k → 6%TURNING POINT: $61k → 6%TURNING POINT: $40k → 6%TURNING POINT: $34k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $26k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $25k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $24k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $22k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $22k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $22k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $18k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $17k → 6%SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $12k → 6%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 35 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
8

Total granted

$7.7M
$116k

Still filing today

31%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TP
    Turning Point Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $652k · revenue +57%
  • FH
    Family Health Partnership Clinic
    9× · 2017–2025 · $453k · revenue +82%
  • IH
    Independence Health & Therapy
    4× · 2017–2020 · $422k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • AO
    ASSOCIAION OF INDIVIDUAL DEV
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • VC
    VOLUNTEER CTR McHENRY COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY GOLDER DINERS
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
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
Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center

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.

Health
2
Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services
3
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
4
Seniors Assistance Center

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,…

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5
North Central Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health and drug addiction services.

Health
6
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
7
Schuyler County Mental Health Associatio

Counseling & support to those in need

Health
8
Residential Services Inc

Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.

Health
9
Stepping Stones of Rockford Inc

Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.

Human Services
10
Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance

The Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance is a statewide network of self-advocates, self-advocacy groups, and allies in Illinois. We support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to develop self-advocacy skills so they…

Civil Rights
11
Care Partners of Cook County

To support community members on the journey of aging and end-of-life through providing care coordination, caregiver support, volunteer based services - transportation, chores, and companionship, community education and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Human Services Inc

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…

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

12 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. 12 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SVC: $912,384 · OtherPIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SVCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $720,940 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSIndividual grant recipient: $597,456 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $502,898 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYIndependence Health & Therapy: $421,760 · OtherIndependence Health & TherapyTHE SALVATION ARMY: $406,636 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYYOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER OF MC: $268,614 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC: $248,949 · OtherFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $204,706 · OtherADULT & CHILD THERAPY SERVICE: $201,580 · Other+27 more: $1,441,959 · Other+27 moreTurning Point Inc: $652,285 · Human ServicesTurning Poin…SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $187,360 · Human ServicesSENIOR CARE …ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $45,000 · Human ServicesFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $453,019 · HealthNAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS: $17,500 · HealthHome of the Sparrow Inc: $359,370 · Housing & ShelterCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC: $202,332 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,927,882Human Services$884,645Health$470,519Housing & Shelter$359,370Crime & Legal$202,332

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTurning Point Inc: $652,285 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $453,019 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetIndependence Health & Therapy: $421,760 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $359,370 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC: $248,949 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC: $202,332 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetSENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $187,360 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetROSECRANCE INC: $144,502 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNot-For-Profit Resources Inc: $96,078 over 4y, 14% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER: $36,510 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNAMI OF MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS: $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Full Circle FoundationNorthwestern Memorial…Mental Health Resourc…Foglia Family Foundat…The Bersted FoundationAbbVie FoundationWillow Springs Charit…Aptargroup Charitable…The Chicago Community…Lichtenheld Family Fo…The Gerhard & Patrici…
The Community Foundation for McHenry CountyIL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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.

    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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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