How much did UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2024

falls civic

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k8 grants · $168k
$50k–250k2 grants · $192k

$15,800

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

YMCA OF THE SAUK VALLEY$121,000
STERLING ROCK FALLS YMCA$71,000
WHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER$40,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF IL$32,500
HOME OF HOPE$21,000
STVINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$17,500
WOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY$15,800
ROCK RIVER HOSPICE & HOME$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY$13,900
WHITE OAKS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN$12,500
STERLING ROCK FALLS DAY CARE$8,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$7,500
APRIL HOUSE$7,000

02The need

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, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 60% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.4M · 22 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.4M

$6k

Still filing today

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationOther

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

YO
YWCA of the Sauk Valley
8× · 2018–2025 · $972k · revenue +47%
SF
Sterling-Rock Falls YMCA
8× · 2018–2025 · $592k · revenue +7%
LS
Lutheran Social Service
8× · 2018–2025 · $226k · revenue +60%

Funded once

RF
ROCK FALLS CIVIC FUND
one grant, 2024 · $6k

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.

Woodside Daycare Center Inc

Provide childcare services to infants, toddlers and preschoolers

Human Services

White Plains Childrens Center Inc

A developmental day care center providing care for special needs and non-special needs children.

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Senior Services Center of Will County

To enhance the quality of life for older persons

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White Birch Community Centerinc

Education

Lake Shore Child Care Center Inc

Child care services for community families

Human Services

Lifeways of Wisconsin Inc

Operation of childcare centers based on the waldorf teaching method. nurturing children, families, caregivers and communities. lifeways welcomes children and families of any race, religion,

Human Services

Children's Care Corner

To provide a licensed child care center for the families of howard, south dakota.

Human Services

South Whidbey Children's Center

To provide developmentally appropriate, curriculum-based early learning and childcare programs in a nurturing, loving, safe and stimulating environment.

Human Services

Woodstock Area Council On Aging

The woodstock area council on aging operates the thompson senior center which is a multigenerational gathering place for its community. programs and activites promote the physical, intellectual and social well-being of the adult community.

Human Services

Wayland Area Childcare Organization

Wayland area childcare organization's mission is to provide childcare services to the citizens of wayland, iowa and surrounding communities.

Human Services

Woodstock Christian Life Services

To provide healthcare services in a nursing home facility, housing for the elderly, and daycare services for children

Human Services

Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of and the most unlike its peers is Sterling-Rock Falls Family Ymca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/19

Grantees still filing

12/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,542,360Human Services$227,500Health$161,000Youth Development$148,880Arts & Culture$144,600Animals$95,000Religion$73,000

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

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.

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.

Sterling Rock Falls Community TrustIL20.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Dillon Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Community Foundation of Northern Il · AbbVie Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Literacy is Fun for Everyone.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200783126 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Literacy is Fun for Everyone, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 40% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Whiteside County?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Whiteside County through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Whiteside County?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Whiteside County?

More from the funding graph