· Public charity
United Way of Grundy County
To support the activities that facilitate organized solicitations and contributions to approved organizations of a charitable, benevolent, or health related nature by and for the people of grundy county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $164,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $196,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,300 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY | $23,000 |
| EASTERSEALS JOLIET REGION | $19,600 |
| GUARDIAN ANGEL COMM SERVICES | $17,200 |
| COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK | $15,000 |
| ILLINOIS VALLEY INDUSTRIES | $12,100 |
| UNIV OF IL EXT GRUNDY CO | $11,700 |
| DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER | $9,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS RAINBOW COUNCIL | $9,200 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER CHICAG | $9,200 |
| GRUNDY COUNTY SPECIALTY COURT | $9,000 |
| STEPPING STONES INC | $9,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $7,500 |
| MORRIS HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE | $6,200 |
| PRAIRIE LEGAL SERVICES | $5,800 |
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, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- WCWE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +52%
- ESEASTER SEALS OF JOLIET REGION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +76%
- GAGUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CCChild Care Resource & Referralgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +68%
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 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 enhance the quality of life of the older person, support theirindependence, encourage their involvement in the community, provide analternative to loneliness and isolation and provide a community focalpoint where older persons come…
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
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…
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…
Voluntary Action Center, which serves Bureau, Dekalb, Kendall, Lasalle and Putnam counties provides high quality services that address the basic transportation and nutrition needs of its communities.
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.
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
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,…
To promptly and efficiently promote and provide a wide array of programs to meet the needs of the elderly, their families and those who care for them in a confidential and professional manner.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals of Joliet Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grundy Community Lending Closet and Grief Support Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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 WE CARE OF GRUNDY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF JOLIET REGION INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK AND SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Rainbow Council ↗
- Who funds CRISIS LINE OF WILL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF WILL AND GRUNDY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION JOLIET ↗
- Who funds GRUNDY COMMUNITY LENDING CLOSET AND GRIEF SUPPORT LTD ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ↗
- Who funds Child Care Resource & Referral ↗
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 Will County · Community Foundation of Grundy County · Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area on Aging · The Community Foundation of Will County · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Dupage Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Grundy County 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.