· Public charity
United Way of Illinois Valley
To improve the quality of life of all people by gathering and distributing, in an efficient and accountable manner, community resources which respond to priority health and human service needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $134,371 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $163,421 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,050 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k7 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY | $26,700 |
| HORIZON HOUSE OF IL VALLEY | $21,500 |
| LIGHTED WAY ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU OF IV | $11,000 |
| CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY SOL | $10,900 |
| IVICL | $9,800 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $9,240 |
| MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES | $8,500 |
| SAFE JOURNEYS | $7,531 |
| ILLINOIS VALLEY YMCA | $7,100 |
| LASALLE COUNTY CASA | $5,600 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–26, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HHHORIZON HOUSE OF ILLINOIS VALLEY INC8× · 2017–2026 · $150k · revenue +62%
- IVILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY8× · 2017–2026 · $142k · revenue +101%
- LWLIGHTED WAY ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2026 · $93k · revenue +195%
Funded once
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ILLINOIS VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue +118%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $18k
- IVILLINOIS VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +41%
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.
Court appointed special advocates for children
Provide emergency food and shelter
The trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
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…
Riding therapy for disabled
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.
Advocacy for abused and neglected children
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
To provide support and assistance to community driven programs and services that seek to improve the quality of life for youth, families and communities.
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Valley Center for Independent Living and the most unlike its peers is Mendota Area Senior Service Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 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 HORIZON HOUSE OF ILLINOIS VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTED WAY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ILLINOIS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN 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: Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust · The Covia Foundation · United Way of Eastern la Salle County Inc · Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Illinois Valley 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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