How much does United Way of Whiteside County give?

United Way of Whiteside County reported 13 itemized grants totaling $382,700, out of $399,562 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Whiteside County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (68%), Health (10%), Youth Development (5%).

Who are United Way of Whiteside County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Women's Christian Association of the Sauk Valley ($1.1M), Sterling-Rock Falls Family YMCA ($667k), Whiteside County Senior Center ($347k).

Does United Way of Whiteside County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Whiteside County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dillon Foundation, Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust, Quad Cities Community Foundation.

Where is United Way of Whiteside County based?

United Way of Whiteside County is based in IL.

United Way of Whiteside County

United Way of Whiteside County at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

United Way of Whiteside County

Providing dynamic leadership in uniting people and resources to create lasting change that improves lives and strengthens our communities.

$400k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$121k

Largest

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 2025.

Human Services$2.6MHealth$397kYouth Development$206kArts & Culture$161kPublic Benefit$107kEducation$93kReligion$58kCivil Rights$44kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 13 grants below total $382,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $399,562 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,862 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 · 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
Recipient	Amount
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

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 (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 22 repeat orgs$32k 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

$3.8M

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%

+35%

Still filing today

77%

33%

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 & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

YW
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEY
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
LS
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS
9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +94%
HC
HOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS
9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +1%

Funded once

LC
LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +35%
TO
Tri-County Opportunities Coun
one grant, 2017 · $6k
RF
ROCK FALLS CIVIC FUND
one grant, 2024 · $6k

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.

Lake Shore Child Care Center Inc

Child care services for community families

Human Services

Rock Rapids Kids Club Inc

To provide nurturing and educational childcare services.

Human Services

White Birch Community Center Inc

The organization provides the community with childcare services, nursery school, after school programs, youth and senior programs

Education

White Plains Childrens Center Inc

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

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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

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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Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

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

Bucksport Area Child Care Center

It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.

Human Services

The Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn

The children's center of cicero-berwyn, inc. is a community-based child care program composed of nine day care sites providing pre-school and school age day care and child development programs in the berwyn and cicero, illinois communities.

Human Services

Silver Spring Child Day Care Association Association Inc

Silver springs child care ceter provides full day, full year child care services for up to 47 children ages 2-5. we believe that a warm and caring environment is essential for pre-school age children. our mission is to enhance the social,…

Human Services

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Sterling Rock Falls Day Care Agency 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

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/20

Grantees still filing

12/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,912,625Human Services$244,500Health$181,000Youth Development$172,880Arts & Culture$160,600Animals$92,500Education$63,000

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.

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.

Dillon FoundationIL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dillon Foundation · Sterling Rock Falls Community Trust · Quad Cities Community Foundation · United Way of Lee County Inc · United Way of Rock River Valley · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Kunes Family Foundation · William & Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation Nfp · Do It Best Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Verizon 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 Whiteside County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Whiteside County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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