· Public charity
Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging
To ensure coordinated, accessible services for older persons to live independent, meaningful and dignified lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $901k
- $250k+8 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT NOW | $1,591,578 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER | $1,287,038 |
| ALTERNATIVES INC | $922,732 |
| HENRY CO SENIOR CITIZENS | $773,729 |
| VNA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $643,815 |
| JAMIESON COMMUNITY CTR | $436,334 |
| MCDONOUGH CO YMCA | $412,743 |
| STROM CENTER | $296,354 |
| BUREAU CO SENIOR CITIZENS | $243,215 |
| MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES | $236,440 |
| PUTNAM CO ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES | $168,359 |
| MERCER CO SENIOR CITIZENS | $150,488 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $102,600 |
| CITY OF GALESBURG TRANSIT | $42,484 |
| ADDUS HEALTHCARE | $30,894 |
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 (FY17–24, $14.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- PNPROJECT NOW INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +65%
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS8× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +13%
- AFALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BFBRIDGEWAY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -11%
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.
To provide a variety of services for senior citizens
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
To provide congregate meals, home delivered meals, transportation, and information and assistance to senior citizens of washington county, illinois.
Provide services to senior citizens
Services for the aged.
The fayette county commission on aging serves and represents those adults 60 years of age and older in fayette county. the emphasis is on improving the quality of life of those fayette county citizens, 60 and above, and providing the…
Provide information, assistance, and transportation to seniors concerning programs to provide for their needs.
Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes
The mid-columbia senior center provides social and other beneficial services to seniors.
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…
Adults day care
Services for the elderly
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Iowa Center for Independent Living and the most unlike its peers is Bureau County Senior Citizens Assoc Inc. 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 49 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 30 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 PROJECT NOW INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds VNA Community Service ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc of McDonough Co ↗
- Who funds STROM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BUREAU COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Warren Achievement Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS IOWA CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds KCCDD INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trust · Warren County United Way · United Way of Eastern la Salle County Inc · United Way of Illinois Valley · United Way of Knox County Inc · Galesburg Community Foundation · The Covia Foundation · The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources Inc · 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 organization Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging 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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