· Private foundation
Willard J and Alice C Corbett Char Tr
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $50k–250k5 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER | $807,931 |
| UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $673,599 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $673,114 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN IL | $505,320 |
| KIWANIS CLUB (DOWNTOWN CLUB) | $505,320 |
| ST ANTHONY MEDICAL CENTER | $336,557 |
| ROCKFORD BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUBS ASSN | $269,634 |
| SWEDISH AMERICAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $235,687 |
| MERCY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $235,687 |
| KEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER | $202,225 |
| LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $202,225 |
| ILLINOIS GROWTH ENTERPRISES INC | $202,225 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of your 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 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
- MDMERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $252k · revenue +357%
- LCLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC2× · 2019–2020 · $216k · revenue +29%
- KCKEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2019–2020 · $216k · revenue +50% · 98% of their budget
Funded once
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.
Rockford regional health council is a not-for-profit social service corporation organized under the laws of the state of illinois for the purpose of improving community health through data gatering and analysis, education and advocacy.
Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
To support not for profit organizations in innovation, excellence and leadership in their communities.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Rockford Bell Credit Union is a member owned community credit union chartered by the state. We are dedicated to providing quality financial service for our membership.
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
To enable older persons to live in dignity and independence.
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Community Center and the most unlike its peers is St Anthony Medical Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 12 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 NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern IL ↗
- Who funds MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS GROWTH ENTERPRISES ↗
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: Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Willard J and Alice C Corbett Char Tr 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.