· Public charity
United Way of Knox County Inc
To strengthen knox county communities by fostering volunteer action, building resources, and caring for individuals
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VNA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| GORDON BEHRENTS SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE | $10,000 |
| FISH OF GALESBURG | $10,000 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES OF OLDER ADULTS | $7,500 |
| CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY SOLUTIONS | $6,000 |
| GALESBURG YOUTH ATHLETIC CLUB | $6,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Galesburg Community Foundation · Donald E Fike Family Foundation · Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Knox County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Knox County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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