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United Way of Rock River Valley

Uniting the collective power of the community to improve lives.

$932k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$2.9MYouth Development$2.2MEducation$1.1MHealth$1.0MArts & Culture$795kFood & Nutrition$737kCommunity Improvement$528kHousing & Shelter$418kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $421k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $499k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA OF ROCKFORD$120,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCKFORD$71,355
ZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$57,538
YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY$50,075
BELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA$50,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$50,000
COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER$50,000
BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE$50,000
ETHNIC HERITAGE$43,403
LIFESCRAP COMMUNITY SERVICES$42,916
OTHER$41,632
AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER$40,000
ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD$30,000
IWBC$30,000
WINNEBAGO OFFICE OF EDUCATORS$28,211
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED WAY OF LEE AND OGLE COUNTIES: $40k → 12%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $28k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $28k → 9%HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $28k → 9%HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $26k → 9%HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY: $24k → 9%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $50k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $28k → 15%FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $23k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $23k → 15%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $21k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS: $17k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS: $17k → 15%YWCA OF ROCKFORD: $120k → 15%YWCA OF ROCKFORD: $96k → 15%YWCA OF ROCKFORD: $96k → 15%YWCA OF ROCKFORD: $76k → 15%COURT APPPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA)-17TH JUDICIAL COURT: $62k → 15%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $33k → 15%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $33k → 15%COURT APPPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA)-17TH JUDICIAL COURT: $24k → 15%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $23k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK: $208k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK: $208k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK: $91k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK: $76k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $38k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $37k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $37k → 15%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $35k → 15%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $35k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $31k → 15%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $24k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $129k → 15%BRIGHTPOINT: $80k → 15%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $50k → 15%CARPENTERS PLACE: $50k → 15%BLACKHAWK LEARNING CONNECTION: $48k → 15%BLACKHAWK LEARNING CONNECTION: $48k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $43k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $43k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $31k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $30k → 15%BLACKHAWK LEARNING CONNECTION: $22k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU OF ILLINOIS VALLEY: $18k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU OF ILLINOIS VALLEY: $18k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 60 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
35

Total granted

$11M
$812k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • YS
    YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $801k · revenue +144%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD
    8× · 2017–2025 · $700k · revenue +123%
  • DC
    DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • NI
    Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence
    one grant, 2021 · $81k · revenue +15%
  • JD
    JEREMIAH DEVELOPMENT NFP
    one grant, 2021 · $62k · revenue -8%
  • NS
    NORTH SUBURBAN LIBRARY DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rockford Day Nursery

It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.

Human Services
2
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
3
Rimland Services Nfp

Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.

Human Services
4
Rockford Regional Health Council

Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.

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5
Rochelle Enrichment Center Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible, child care in a developmentally appropriate learning environment. the program is committed to the holistic development of the individual child through a broad range of educational programs, which…

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6
Racine County Opportunity Center

Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…

Human Services
7
Rockford Area Economic Development Council Inc

The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region

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8
The Rockford Institute

To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…

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9
Mosaic Illinois Housing of Rockford I

The organization provides low income affordable housing under illinois housing development authority guidelines.

Health
10
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
11
Stepping Stones of Rockford Inc

Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.

Human Services
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roy Gayle Pony Baseball Softball Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Economic Developme…Rockford Area K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Social ServicesConstruction Industry UnionsAffordable Housing ProvidersCommunity Museums & Nature …Youth Sports & RecreationRockford Youth Education Or…Community Social & Recreati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%7%5–10yr16%8%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr15%38%35–55yr23%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr16%6%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr15%43%35–55yr23%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/97
the rest of the field
9%
135/1,442

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 101 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
55/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,344,874 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD — $700,451 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORDTHE LITERACY COUNCIL — $640,980 · OtherTHE LITERACY COUNCILNORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER — $300,604 · OtherDONOR DESIGNATIONS TO OTHER UNITED WAYS — $250,499 · Other+56 more — $3,288,863 · Other+56 moreYOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INC — $800,574 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INCYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS — $387,324 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOISYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $357,212 · Human ServicesYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEYCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $286,739 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY …BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE — $180,914 · Human ServicesBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPEBlackhawk Learning Connection — $174,362 · Human ServicesLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION — $140,400 · Human ServicesHOPE OF OGLE COUNTY — $135,218 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NO IL — $132,041 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC — $127,444 · Human ServicesWINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA — $127,027 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR FOCUS HOUSE — $118,355 · Human Services+7 more — $335,316 · Human Services+7 moreANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC — $355,911 · Food & NutritionLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $301,881 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $50,000 · Food & NutritionDISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC — $414,992 · Arts & CultureMIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER — $47,410 · Arts & CultureROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL — $37,025 · Arts & CultureHARRY AND DELLA BURPEE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $36,317 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,894 · Arts & CultureREMEDIES RENEWING LIVES — $230,360 · HealthROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING INC — $180,248 · HealthEASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $102,706 · Health+1 more — $15,000 · HealthZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $387,445 · EmploymentFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT — $28,000 · EmploymentKEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $220,101 · Community ImprovementNorthern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence — $81,200 · Community ImprovementAFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER AT BOOKER — $65,000 · Community ImprovementCARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $15,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $19,253 · Community Improvement
Other$6,526,271Human Services$3,302,926Food & Nutrition$707,792Arts & Culture$556,638Health$528,314Employment$415,445Community Improvement$400,554

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INC — $800,574 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD — $700,451 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY COUNCIL — $640,980 over 4y, 52% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC — $414,992 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $387,445 over 9y, 12% of budgetYWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS — $387,324 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $357,212 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC — $355,911 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $301,881 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER — $300,604 over 7y, 11% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $286,739 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREMEDIES RENEWING LIVES — $230,360 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetKEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $220,101 over 7y, 16% of budgetBLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $212,677 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $193,415 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE — $180,914 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING INC — $180,248 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetPATRIOTS' GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER — $177,031 over 8y, 13% of budgetBlackhawk Learning Connection — $174,362 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC — $150,352 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION — $140,400 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE OF OGLE COUNTY — $135,218 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NO IL — $132,041 over 4y, 21% of budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES — $130,657 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC — $127,444 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetWINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA — $127,027 over 6y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOCUS HOUSE — $118,355 over 5y, 44% of budgetROCK RIVER CENTER INC — $104,581 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $102,706 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC — $102,390 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME — $88,582 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNorthern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence — $81,200 over 1y, 17% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $77,033 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE OF PROGRESS INC — $69,844 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $67,058 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUB CITY SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $65,704 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER AT BOOKER — $65,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetALIGNMENT ROCKFORD — $61,026 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $59,057 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCARPENTER'S PLACE INC — $55,025 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetROCKFORD UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON GARDENS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER — $47,410 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC — $39,753 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC — $38,071 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL — $37,025 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetHARLEM COMMUNITY CENTER — $36,878 over 4y, 0.4% of budget
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 YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds ZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
  • Who funds REMEDIES RENEWING LIVES ↗
  • Who funds KEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOTS' GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Blackhawk Learning Connection ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE OF OGLE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NO IL ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOCUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ROCK RIVER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY HOSPICE AND HOME ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Kjellstrom Family…Bergstrom Inc Charita…The Ben Harding Famil…The Mill FoundationBlazer FoundationThe David & Colleen A…Northern Illinois Foo…Guy Reno Family Found…Kristin L Anderson Ch…Ralph J Baudhuin Foun…Tracy E Anderson Char…
Community Foundation of Northern ILIL110.9× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · The Mill Foundation · Blazer Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable 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 Rock River 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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