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ACCESS CREDIT UNION

ACCESS CREDIT UNION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,825 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($19,825). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$8.0M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Access Credit Union does

Mission

Illinois state chartered credit union operated for the mutual benefit of its members. The credit union makes loans to members and pays dividends to members with share deposits at a competitive rate of interest.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Credit union makes and services consumer and real estate loans to members. The number of loans outstanding at 12/31/25 was 2,442 for a total of $31,021,676.

    $2,933,250 spent$3,068,038 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Credit union pays out dividends to its members on share deposit accounts at a market rate of interest. Total number of share accounts at 12/31/25 is 8,163 in the amount of $50,333,501.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,933,250.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue 106 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($2.2M) Net assets 103 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 112 ($2.5M) Expenses 103 ($2.2M) Net assets 107 ($6.6M)2020 Revenue 108 ($2.4M) Expenses 97 ($2.1M) Net assets 111 ($6.9M)2021 Revenue 115 ($2.5M) Expenses 99 ($2.1M) Net assets 118 ($7.3M)2022 Revenue 118 ($2.6M) Expenses 107 ($2.3M) Net assets 123 ($7.5M)2023 Revenue 118 ($2.6M) Expenses 112 ($2.4M) Net assets 125 ($7.7M)2024 Revenue 126 ($2.8M) Expenses 120 ($2.6M) Net assets 128 ($7.9M)2025 Revenue 140 ($3.1M) Expenses 137 ($2.9M) Net assets 130 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (137)Net assets (130)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $50M to $59M (+19%).

$49M
$49M
$50M
$59M
$61M
$62M
$59M
$57M
$59M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’17
$160k
’18
$264k
’19
$280k
’20
$396k
’21
$294k
’22
$179k
’23
$188k
’24
$135k
’25
5.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Lisa Dinges

President/CEO

Board chair

James Parker

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111010111111111111
Joined·+1+2+2+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·22110000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ACCESS CREDIT UNION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ACCESS CREDIT UNION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ACCESS CREDIT UNION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCESS CREDIT UNION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ACCESS CREDIT UNION?
ACCESS CREDIT UNION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,825 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($19,825). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACCESS CREDIT UNION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $19,825 in grants to ACCESS CREDIT UNION.
Who is the largest funder of ACCESS CREDIT UNION?
ILLINOIS CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACCESS CREDIT UNION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing