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United Way of Lee County Inc

To optimize collective resources supporting human service programs -focusing on education, health, financial stability, and basic needs -that improve the quality of life in lee county

$393k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$719kYouth Development$240kHealth$234kHousing & Shelter$90kCrime & Legal$50kFood & Nutrition$49kCivil Rights$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $314,767, the rows itemized in this filing. The $393,448 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $78,681 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $263k
$15,431
Median grant
1
States reached
$639k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN SESAME CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS$28,000
LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$27,000
SINNISSIPPI CENTERS INC (SCI)$25,000
DIXON FAMILY YMCA$21,820
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS$20,000
HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY$19,562
TEEN TURF INC$19,000
CARROLL LEE OGLE COUNTY CASA$18,881
KREIDER SERVICES INC$17,000
SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$15,706
VILLAGE OF PROGRESS$15,431
DIXON PADS SHELTER$14,000
ROCK RIVER CENTER$11,762
YWCA OF THE SAUK VALLEY$10,120
FOCUS HOUSE$9,438
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 (FY17–24, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $28k → 9%HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $20k → 9%FOCUS HOUSE: $14k → 9%HUB CITY SENIOR CENTER: $11k → 9%FOCUS HOUSE: $9k → 9%HUB CITY SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 9%VILLAGE OF PROGRESS: $22k → 9%VILLAGE OF PROGRESS: $15k → 9%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $30k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $30k → 12%OPEN SESAME CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS: $28k → 12%OPEN SESAME CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS: $28k → 12%OPEN SESAME CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS: $28k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $27k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $27k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $27k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $27k → 12%OPEN SESAME CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS: $14k → 12%LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $14k → 12%GOOD FELLOWS OF LEE COUNTY IL: $6k → 12%GOOD FELLOWS OF LEE COUNTY IL: $6k → 12%GOODFELLOWS OF LEE COUNTY: $6k → 12%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 30 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
6

Total granted

$1.7M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+17%

Still filing today

63%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LC
    LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING
    8× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue +10%
  • SC
    SINNISSIPPI CENTERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +205%
  • DF
    DIXON FAMILY YMCA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOME OF HOPE OF THE ROCK RIVER VALLEY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $15k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    2× · 2017–2020 · $11k
  • SH
    SERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +17%
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
Hospice of Rockingham County Inc

Provide medical and other suport services to patients and their families.

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2
Hospice Homes of Genesee and Lapeer Counties

To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.

Human Services
3
Hospice of Limestone County

Provide counseling, nursing, transportation, and other services as needed to terminally ill patients and their families. patients are recommended by physicians, and pay only if they have insurance.

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4
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
5
Hospice of the Blue Ridge Inc

Care of terminally ill

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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
Senior Services Center of Will County

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…

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8
Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation - Parent

To provide decent and affordable housing to low and moderate income persons.

Housing & Shelter
9
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
10
Christian Care Communities Inc Group Return

Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living. 24-hour skilled nursing…

Human Services
11
Sheffield Care Center Inc

At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.

Human Services
12
Senior Community Services Inc

To promote independent and meaningful living for older adults through direct services and programs in the home and community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rock River Hospice and Home; the most unlike its peers is Teen Turf 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

22 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. 22 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIXON FAMILY YMCA: $154,070 · OtherDIXON FAMILY YMCAKREIDER SERVICES INC: $106,750 · OtherKREIDER SERVICES INCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $96,681 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOISYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEY: $59,370 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEYOPEN SESAME CHILD CARE: $47,325 · OtherOPEN SESAME CHILD CARELEE COUNTY CASA: $45,000 · OtherSHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $44,875 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF IL: $44,000 · OtherPADS HOMELESS SHELTER: $36,000 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $32,000 · OtherROCK RIVER CENTER INC: $29,050 · Other+11 more: $156,075 · Other+11 moreLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $181,500 · Human ServicesLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN…OPEN SESAME CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $98,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SESAME CHILD CARE CEN…HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $47,250 · Human ServicesHOPE OF OGLE COUNTYVILLAGE OF PROGRESS INC: $37,725 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROGRESS INCFOUNDATION FOR FOCUS HOUSE: $23,751 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR FOCUS HOUSEHUB CITY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $18,225 · Human ServicesGoodfellows Of Lee County: $17,860 · Human ServicesSINNISSIPPI CENTERS INC: $177,500 · HealthSINNISSIPPI C…HOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS: $21,000 · HealthHOPE CANCER W…ROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING INC: $15,524 · HealthROCKFORD SEXU…Teen Turf Inc: $132,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $56,687 · Food & NutritionCASA - 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT: $54,025 · Civil RightsDIXON PADS SHELTER: $49,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$851,196Human Services$424,311Health$214,024Youth Development$132,500Food & Nutrition$56,687Civil Rights$54,025Housing & Shelter$49,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $181,500 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetSINNISSIPPI CENTERS INC: $177,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDIXON FAMILY YMCA: $154,070 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTeen Turf Inc: $132,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetKREIDER SERVICES INC: $106,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $96,681 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEY: $59,370 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $56,687 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCASA - 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT: $54,025 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetDIXON PADS SHELTER: $49,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetHOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $47,250 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVILLAGE OF PROGRESS INC: $37,725 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROCK RIVER CENTER INC: $29,050 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDIXON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $26,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOCUS HOUSE: $23,751 over 2y, 16% of budgetHOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS: $21,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHUB CITY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $18,225 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGoodfellows Of Lee County: $17,860 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING INC: $15,524 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME: $8,074 over 1y, 0.1% 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 LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds SINNISSIPPI CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DIXON FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Teen Turf Inc ↗
  • Who funds KREIDER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SESAME CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA - 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ↗
  • Who funds DIXON PADS SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE OF PROGRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCK RIVER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DIXON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOCUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds HUB CITY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds Goodfellows Of Lee County ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME ↗

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.

United Way of Rock Ri…William & Beverly Bur…Rochelle Area Communi…United Way of Whitesi…The Etnyre FoundationDillon FoundationDo It Best Foundation…The Covia FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Rock River ValleyIL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rock River Valley · William & Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation Nfp · Rochelle Area Community Foundation · United Way of Whiteside County · The Etnyre Foundation · Dillon Foundation · Do It Best Foundation Inc · The Covia Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Lee County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lee County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    10report 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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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