· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $382,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $399,562 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,862 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $192k
| 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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +94%
- HCHOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- LCLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +29%
- TOTri-County Opportunities Counone grant, 2017 · $6k
- RFROCK FALLS CIVIC FUNDone grant, 2024 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization provides the community with childcare services, nursery school, after school programs, youth and senior programs
A developmental day care center providing care for special needs and non-special needs children.
Child care services for community families
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…
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,
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.
To provide healthcare services in a nursing home facility, housing for the elderly, and daycare services for children
Child day care center
To provide developmentally appropriate, curriculum-based early learning and childcare programs in a nurturing, loving, safe and stimulating environment.
To provide nurturing and educational childcare services.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Morrison Community Nursery School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SAUK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STERLING-ROCK FALLS FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds WHITESIDE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HOPE CANCER WELLNESS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER HOSPICE AND HOME ↗
- Who funds WHITE OAKS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds STERLING ROCK FALLS DAY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY IS FUN FOR EVERYONE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds APRIL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WHITESIDE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISON COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MORRISON COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES COUNCIL ↗
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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