· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +175% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA5× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +303%
- FAFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT6× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +913%
- PSPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC2× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- TATHE ARC OF WINNEBAGO BOONE & OGLEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +31%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- YSYOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +125%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive
North suburban legal aid clinic's mission is to provide accessible, quality, equitable, free legal services in the areas of domestic violence, housing, and immigration to give low-income, at-risk community members access to justice and the…
Provide legal services for children in area.
To be a public law firm that knows, as well as understands, the problems of even the poorest in our communities and addresses these problems through education, and with creative legal advocacy of the highest distinction. LSNM will be seen…
The trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…
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…
To provide domestic abuse advocacy to parents and children of cass, hubbard and clearwater counties.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Our mission is to provide civil legal service to low-income clients. our legal services provide basic protection for our clients by enforcing the law when their rights have been violated, promote the self-sufficiency of individuals…
Rockford sexual assault counseling, inc. (rsac) responds to the needs of victims of sexual assault/abuse and their families/significant others through emergency services, emotional support, counseling, referral, advocacy, and education,…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF WINNEBAGO BOONE & OGLE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds REMEDIES RENEWING LIVES ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Winnebago County Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winnebago County Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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