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Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging

To ensure coordinated, accessible services for older persons to live independent, meaningful and dignified lives.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Human Services$35MCrime & Legal$412kHealth$212kFood & Nutrition$102k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $901k
  • $250k+8 grants · $6.4M
$150,488
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY: $29k → 12%HENRY CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $774k → 9%ILLINOIS VALLEY CIL: $6k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $1.6M → 15%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CTR: $436k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY: $18k → 12%HENRY CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $500k → 9%ILLINOIS VALLEY CIL: $6k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $1.3M → 15%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CTR: $333k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY: $9k → 12%HENRY CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $464k → 9%ILLINOIS VALLEY CIL: $6k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $1.2M → 15%HENRY CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $452k → 9%ILLINOIS VALLEY CIL: $6k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $1.1M → 15%HENRY CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $371k → 9%ILLINOIS VALLEY CIL: $6k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $931k → 15%HENRY CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $343k → 9%ILLINOIS VALLEY CIL: $6k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $891k → 15%HENRY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $298k → 9%ILLINOIS VALLEY CIL: $6k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $697k → 15%MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $238k → 15%ILLINOISIOWA CIL: $12k → 15%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CTR: $198k → 16%MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $236k → 15%MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $236k → 15%ILLINOISIOWA CIL: $6k → 15%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CTR: $194k → 16%MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $235k → 15%MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $173k → 15%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CTR: $157k → 16%MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $161k → 15%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CTR: $141k → 16%MENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $140k → 15%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER: $126k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 27 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
1

Total granted

$36M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-11%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PN
    PROJECT NOW INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +65%
  • VA
    VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +13%
  • AF
    ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • BF
    BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -11%
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.

1
Mid-Illinois Senior Services Inc

To provide a variety of services for senior citizens

Human Services
2
Seniors Assistance Center

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,…

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3
Washington County Senior Services Inc

To provide congregate meals, home delivered meals, transportation, and information and assistance to senior citizens of washington county, illinois.

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4
Nixa Senior Citizens Center

Provide services to senior citizens

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5
West Central Illinois Aging & Disability Resource Center

Services for the aged.

Human Services
6
Fayette County Commission On Aging Incorporated

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…

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7
Carroll County Senior Services Organization Inc

Provide information, assistance, and transportation to seniors concerning programs to provide for their needs.

Human Services
8
Jackson County Council On Aging

Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes

Human Services
9
Mid-Columbia Senior Center Inc

The mid-columbia senior center provides social and other beneficial services to seniors.

Unclassified
10
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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11
Southside Senior Citizen Center

Adults day care

Human Services
12
Marion County Council On Aging Inc

Services for the elderly

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Iowa Center for Independent Living; 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.
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 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC: $4,635,838 · OtherALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INCVNA Community Service: $3,096,255 · OtherVNA Community ServiceYoung Mens Christian Assoc of McDonough Co: $1,931,929 · OtherYoung Mens Christian Assoc of McDonough CoSTROM CENTER INC: $1,596,429 · OtherSTROM CENTER INCBUREAU COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INC: $1,410,846 · OtherBUREAU COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INCPUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INC: $943,965 · OtherPUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INCMERCER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $792,213 · Other+14 more: $875,187 · Other+14 morePROJECT NOW INC: $7,745,467 · Human ServicesPROJECT NOW INCHENRY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $3,200,995 · Human ServicesHENRY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENSJAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,584,947 · Human ServicesJAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTERMENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICE INC: $1,420,993 · Human ServicesMENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICE INC+3 more: $117,974 · Human ServicesVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $5,875,987 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTARY ACTION C…PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $412,359 · Crime & Legal
Other$15,282,662Human Services$14,070,376Philanthropy$5,875,987Crime & Legal$412,359

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT NOW INC: $7,745,467 over 8y, 10% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $5,875,987 over 8y, 16% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC: $4,635,838 over 8y, 17% of budgetHENRY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $3,200,995 over 8y, 73% of budgetVNA Community Service: $3,096,255 over 8y, 79% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Assoc of McDonough Co: $1,931,929 over 8y, 13% of budgetSTROM CENTER INC: $1,596,429 over 8y, 79% of budgetJAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,584,947 over 8y, 32% of budgetMENDOTA AREA SENIOR SERVICE INC: $1,420,993 over 8y, 64% of budgetBUREAU COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INC: $1,410,846 over 8y, 61% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INC: $943,965 over 8y, 62% of budgetMERCER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $792,213 over 8y, 92% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $412,359 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWarren Achievement Center Inc: $91,108 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY: $56,786 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $42,735 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetILLINOIS IOWA CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $18,453 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKCCDD INC: $17,048 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES: $13,554 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION: $10,649 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Bradley Fedorow Perpe…Warren County United …United Way of Eastern…United Way of Illinoi…United Way of Knox Co…Galesburg Community F…The Covia FoundationThe National Associat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable TrustIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging?

    Find your warmest path to Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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