Illinois · Private foundation
Winnebago County Bar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $163k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Winnebago County Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $10k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $10k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $14k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $29k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $14k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $16k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $15k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winnebago County Casa | $20,750 | 5 | 2% |
| Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Prairie State Legal Services Inc | $8,550 | 2 | 0% |
| The Arc of Winnebago Boone & Ogle | $8,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Children's Safe Harbor Inc | $5,550 | 2 | 2% |
| Youth Services Network Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Peace Center | $3,600 | 2 | 1% |
| Remedies Renewing Lives | $3,400 | 1 | 0% |
| 17th Judicial Circuit Therapy Dogs Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| YMCA of Rock River Valley | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winnebago County Casa | $20,750 | 5 | 2% |
| Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Prairie State Legal Services Inc | $8,550 | 2 | 0% |
| The Arc of Winnebago Boone & Ogle | $8,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Children's Safe Harbor Inc | $5,550 | 2 | 2% |
| Youth Services Network Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Peace Center | $3,600 | 2 | 1% |
| Remedies Renewing Lives | $3,400 | 1 | 0% |
| 17th Judicial Circuit Therapy Dogs Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| YMCA of Rock River Valley | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eliminate Racism 815 | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Winnebago County Bar Association | $263 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Winnebago County Bar Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · United Way of Rock River Valley · The Mill Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Winnebago County Bar Foundation
- How much does Winnebago County Bar Foundation give?
- Winnebago County Bar Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Winnebago County Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (40%), Human Services (25%), Employment (11%).
- Who are Winnebago County Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Winnebago County Casa ($21k), Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project ($14k), Prairie State Legal Services Inc ($9k).
- Does Winnebago County Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Winnebago County Bar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Winnebago County Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, United Way of Rock River Valley, The Mill Foundation.
- Where is Winnebago County Bar Foundation based?
- Winnebago County Bar Foundation is based in IL.
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