Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Rockford, Illinois

61
foundations with a Rockford address
$17.8M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
9
say they accept unsolicited
$7,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 61 foundations that gave a Rockford, Illinois address on their tax filing — 55 private foundations and 6 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $17.8 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 9 of them (15%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Rockford foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 61 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Rockford, Illinois
The Kjellstrom Family FoundationAccepts$10,000$710,460$2,000–$82,459FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Midland States Bank FoundationAccepts$7,500$444,500$5,000–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Stenstrom FoundationAccepts$3,000$124,500$300–$51,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Sjostrom & Sons FoundationAccepts$1,000$46,250$500–$6,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Marion E McRae Trust for Animal WelfareAccepts$7,000$35,837$7,000–$7,837FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Marion E McRae Scholar Foundation for Forestry StudyAccepts$35,837$35,837—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Raena Brown #363 TrustAccepts$14,200$14,400$14,000–$14,400FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dinges Memorial FundAccepts$2,500$5,000One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Alden & Dorothy Perkins ScholarshipAccepts$3,032$4,110$1,954–$4,110FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Isaad foundationPublic foundationNot stated$10,000Over $5k only$4.4M$6,000–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Community Foundation of Northern ILCommunity foundationNot stated$13,031Over $5k only$4M$5,100–$998,872FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rosecrance Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated$605,051Over $5k only$1.2M$326,622–$905,294FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of Rock River ValleyFederationNot stated$38,500Over $5k only$932,229$5,097–$128,842FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Crusaders Health FoundationFederationNot stated$463,676Over $5k only$747,385$179,967–$747,385FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rockford Symphony Orchestra FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$96,106Over $5k only$96,106—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Blazer FoundationInvitation only$10,430$1.4M$1,000–$702,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
John & Linda Anderson CharitableInvitation only$2,001$683,360$200–$72,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Smith Charitable Foundation XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxInvitation only$10,000$306,770$4,120–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
G Bauer TrustInvitation only$203,904$203,615$203,615–$204,193FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Puri FoundationInvitation only$8,880$173,921$201–$155,960FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable FoundationInvitation only$2,000$159,550$200–$15,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Tracy E Anderson Charitable FoundationInvitation only$1,125$155,250$200–$15,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The David & Colleen AndersonInvitation only$1,500$151,990$100–$6,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Miner Family Charitable TrustInvitation only$13,269$142,685$7,253–$15,048FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
R E Sullivan-Bessie Sullivan Char TRInvitation only$35,654$142,616$7,131–$35,654FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

36 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.