How much did WINNEBAGO COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of WINNEBAGO COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

—

2022

traininglegal

2023

—

2024

stipend lawlaw students

2025

financial

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$182k

Total assets

Largest grants

REMEDIES RENEWING LIVES$3,400
FARMWORKER & LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY$2,500
NIU COLLEGE OF LAW$2,000
FAMILY PEACE CENTER$1,600
17TH CIRCUIT THERAPY DOG VOLUNTEERS$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$77k · 8 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +85% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$77k

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%

+85%

Still filing today

50%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalEmploymentHealthOther

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

WC
WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA
4× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +44%
PS
PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES
2× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +102%
FL
FARMWORKER & LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT
2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +913%

Funded once

TA
THE ARC OF WINNEBAGO BOONE & OGLEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +85%
YS
YOUTH SERVICES NETWORKgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +125%
WC
WINNEBAGO COUNTY KIDS PLACE
one grant, 2018 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

To advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

Crime & Legal

Casa of West Central Illinois

To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.

Crime & Legal

Safe Haven of Racine Inc

A facility for racine area youth to provide counseling and referral services, educ. resources and legal and medical resource assistance.

Human Services

Family Safety Network of Cass County Inc

To provide domestic abuse advocacy to parents and children of cass, hubbard and clearwater counties.

Human Services

North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic

Free legal servies to at risk community members in lake county and north suburban cook county

Crime & Legal

Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling

To provide services to survivors of sexual assault/abuse and to educate the community to reduce the risk of sexual violence

Health

Advocacy Center of Winona

Creating a safer community by eliminating sexual and domestic violence

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Family Service Rochester Inc

Family service rochester will provide community-based social services of the highest quality and maintain a commitment to excellence in all operational areas.

Human Services

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services

Casa of Southwestern Illinois

To recruit, train, supervise and support volunteers who advocate for the best interest (reduction of physical, emotional, intellectual and social injuries) for abused and neglected children in the court system.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winnebago County Casa and the most unlike its peers is Farmworker and Landscaper. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

8/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$63,367Human Services$26,850Crime & Legal$10,100Employment$4,000Health$3,400

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.

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.

United Way of Rock River ValleyIL22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rock River Valley · Community Foundation of Northern Il · The Mill Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation WINNEBAGO COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE ARC OF WINNEBAGO BOONE & OGLE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +85% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 362804806 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE ARC OF WINNEBAGO BOONE & OGLE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Winnebago County Bar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Winnebago County Bar Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WINNEBAGO COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Winnebago County Bar Foundation?

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WINNEBAGO COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Winnebago County Bar Foundation?

More from the funding graph