· Charitable trust
William Howard Charitable Trust
To provide funding to its named beneficiary organizations which serve mentally or physically challenged children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $354k
- $250k+1 grant · $509k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER | $509,169 |
| PATRIOT'S GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER | $241,077 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD | $112,652 |
| WALTER LAWSON CHILDREN'S HOME | $35,093 |
| YMCA | $31,667 |
| KEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER | $18,780 |
| BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE | $14,330 |
| BOOKER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER | $11,276 |
| ARC OF WINNEBAGO BOONE AND OGLE COUNTIES | $8,500 |
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, $922k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD9× · 2017–2025 · $918k · revenue +123%
- PGPATRIOTS' GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +19%
- GBGOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $700k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- ESEASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +68%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +41%
- EFEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHCENTRAL ILLINOIS INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 hope learning academy serves children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and neurological disorders and their families by providing homes in which to grow, schools in which to learn, clinics in which to become healthier,…
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.
Easterseals central illinois provides exceptional services to ensure children with developmental delays, disabilities and other special needs can reach their full potential.
To ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are provided with the best options and opportunities to live safely, work productively, explore creatively, learn continuously and play pleasurably throughout their…
Provide clinical and educational service and support to individuals with autism and related disorders.
The mission of Marklund is to make Everyday Life Possible for individuals with profound disabilities. Over the years, Marklund has gained the trust of more than 1800 families for meeting the residential, therapeutic, vocational and…
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.
To be a leader in service delivery for persons with disabilities by providing an array of supports and services to integrate them into their communities and to enhance the quality of their lives.
To assist individuals with developmental disabilities, including autism, how to learn, live, work, and participate in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ken-Rock Community 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.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' GATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds KEN-ROCK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF WINNEBAGO BOONE & OGLE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHCENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Blazer Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Kiwanis Charities of Rockford Inc · The Mill Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Northern Illinois Food Bank · The Minneapolis Foundation · American Endowment 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 William Howard Charitable Trust 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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