How much did UNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of UNITED WAY OF WILL 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

2019

affordablespeech hearingchild carebelievespromotes

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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

03FY2023 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k6 grants · $41k
$10k–50k18 grants · $414k
$50k–250k7 grants · $487k

$18,300

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$93,700
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$77,500
GUARDIAN ANGEL$70,251
GREATER JOLIET YMCA$68,500
TRINITY SERVICES$65,400
STEPPING STONE$59,200
SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER$52,700
SENIOR SERVICES CENTER WILL COUNTY$44,349
WARREN SHARPE COMMUNITY CENTER$43,700
EASTER SEALS JOLIET REGION$34,900
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY-CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES$33,400
AMERICAN RED CROSS$30,500
SOUTH SUBURBAN COUNCIL ALCOHOLISM & SUBSTANCE$27,800
CORNERSTONE SERVICES$21,900
WILLGRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC$19,100

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 (FY18–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.2M · 46 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.2M

$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

Still filing today

78%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

CC
Catholic Charities
6× · 2018–2023 · $932k · revenue +33%
BA
Boy's and Girl's Club
6× · 2018–2023 · $767k · revenue +10% · 37% of their budget
GJ
Greater Joliet Area YMCA
6× · 2018–2023 · $637k · revenue +82%

Funded once

GA
Guardian Angel Comm Services
one grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue +16%
4O
4H of Will County
one grant, 2018 · $22k
AM
Aunt Martha's Youth Servicesgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue +36%

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.

Senior Services Center of Will County

To enhance the quality of life for older persons

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Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services

Childrens Advocacy Center of

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal

Seniors Assistance Center

Provide necessary services to senior citizens.

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Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services

Will County Center for

Assist and enable low and moderate income individuals to attain skills, knowledge, motivation and opportunity to become self-sufficient.

Community Improvement

Care Partners of Cook County

Care Partners of Cook County provides support and companionship on the journey of aging and serious illness

Human Services

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

To advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

Crime & Legal

Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services

Central Illinois Agency On Aging Inc

Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…

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Family Service of Champaign County

Supporting people across the generations by providing quality human services.

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Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and

Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Team Make a Difference. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/52

the rest of the field

13%

350/2,670

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.

05the grantee network

46 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)

40/46

Grantees still filing

31/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,195,165Human Services$2,004,809Crime & Legal$746,999Community Improvement$633,900Health$403,000Recreation & Sports$269,700Food & Nutrition$179,243

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.

United Way of Grundy CountyIL35.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Grundy County · The Community Foundation of Will · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Community Foundation of Grundy County · Ageguide Northeastern Illinois · Midland States Bank Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation · Crane Fund for Widows and Children · J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 · Silver Cross Healthy Community

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 WILL 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: Warren Sharpe Community Center.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363724298 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 Warren Sharpe Community Center, 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.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Will County?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Will 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 WILL 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

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Will County?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF WILL 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

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Will County?

More from the funding graph