· Public charity
United Way of Knox County Inc
To strengthen knox county communities by fostering volunteer action, building resources, and caring for individuals
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $75,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $111,697 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,197 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISH OF GALESBURG | $10,000 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE | $10,000 |
| VNA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| GORDON BEHRENTS SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES OF OLDER ADULTS | $7,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| GALESBURG YOUTH ATHLETIC CLUB | $6,000 |
| CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY SOLUTIONS | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PSPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +111%
- FOFISH OF GALESBURG8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +175%
- VCVNA Community Service7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CCCARVER COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYone grant, 2017 · $17k
- WIWESTERN ILLINOIS REGIONAL COUNCIL - COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +1%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOISone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -35%
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.…
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
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.
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…
To enable older persons to live in dignity and independence.
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,…
Service Inc. of Illinois was formed in 1989 to provide screening, assessment, evaluation, service planning, referral, linkage, follow-up, & related services to individuals with developmental disabilities and/or developmental delays in 17…
Services for the elderly
Goodwill industries is a nonprofit provider of employment and other critical community based services for people who have a disability, people who lack education or job experience, households facing economic challenges, and others in need.
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.
To support not for profit organizations in innovation, excellence and leadership in their communities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kccdd Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triumph Services 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 17 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 PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF GALESBURG ↗
- Who funds VNA Community Service ↗
- Who funds KCCDD INC ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KNOX COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ILLINOIS REGIONAL COUNCIL - COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds WHY NOT NOW INC ↗
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: Galesburg Community Foundation · Donald E Fike Family Foundation · Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging · 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 Knox 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.