· Private foundation
William M Miller Tw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CORONADO | $10,000 |
| BLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF | $5,174 |
| SWEDISH AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,174 |
| EASTERN STAR MASONIC HOME | $5,174 |
| SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,174 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS | $5,174 |
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 (FY19–24, $61k) 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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RPROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $104k · revenue +162%
- YOYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY5× · 2019–2024 · $61k · revenue +56%
- RAREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC5× · 2019–2025 · $51k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ATTN PAULA SCHMOLDTone grant, 2020 · $4k
- ESEASTERN STAR MASONIC HOME ATTN GRAND TREASURERone grant, 2020 · $4k
- BABLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +76%
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 analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…
The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
Organization to build a permanent endowment for the benefit of the rockford symphony orchestra and its programs.
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
Preservation of swedish historical structure, culture and artifacts through the operations of a museum and cultural center.
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.
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
The theatrical productions of the racine theatre guild allow the local community the opportunity to participate in the theatrical experience.
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.
Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…
To support housing and community development ventures
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Symphony Orchestras Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Coronado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CORONADO ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 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 · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Blazer Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · Guy Reno Family Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx · Goddard Family Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · Midland States Bank Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 M Miller Tw 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.