Illinois · Public charity
United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.
- $226k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $210k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $210k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $206k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $219k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $215k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $319k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $282k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $196k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $347k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amity Society of Freeport Inc | $381,881 | 9 | 5% |
| The Boys and Girls Club of Freeport and Stephenson County | $320,469 | 9 | 14% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $284,227 | 5 | 0% |
| Voices of Stephenson County | $228,535 | 9 | 8% |
| Freeport Area Church Cooperative | $145,575 | 9 | 4% |
| Regional Access & Mobilization Project Inc | $136,950 | 6 | 1% |
| Contact of Northern Illinois | $115,634 | 7 | 32% |
| Career Tec - Unite | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Freeport Illinois | $72,752 | 9 | 1% |
| Jane Addams Inc | $62,539 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Northern Illinois Food Bank · United Way of Rock River Valley · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc
- How much does United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc give?
- United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $209,928, out of $225,501 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Youth Development (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Amity Society of Freeport Inc ($382k), The Boys and Girls Club of Freeport and Stephenson County ($320k), The Dollywood Foundation ($284k).
- Does United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, Northern Illinois Food Bank, United Way of Rock River Valley.
- Where is United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc based?
- United Way of Northwest Illinois Inc is based in IL.
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