· Public charity
United Way of Rock River Valley
Uniting the collective power of the community to improve lives.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $421k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $499k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| BELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER | $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 |
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 (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 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 +55% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YSYOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INC6× · 2017–2022 · $801k · revenue +144%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD8× · 2017–2025 · $700k · revenue +123%
- DCDISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC7× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NINorthern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellenceone grant, 2021 · $81k · revenue +15%
- JDJEREMIAH DEVELOPMENT NFPone grant, 2021 · $62k · revenue -8%
- NSNORTH SUBURBAN LIBRARY DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
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…
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…
Residential rehabilitation for mentally and emotionally disabled adults.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
To improve lives by sharing community resources
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…
How this is measured
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Rock River Valley funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Rock River Valley. Bigger dots raise more.
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