Illinois · Nonprofit
ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD
ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,000 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($296,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $852k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $501k
- Net assets
- $136k
What Alignment Rockford does
Mission
To align community resources in support of rockford public school strategies to raise student achievement, improve the health and happiness of our children, and advance the economic and social well-being of our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ready to learn early childhood collaboration the ready to learn movement is a three-tiered community parent support saturation model that leverages partnerships with government agencies, organizations, and businesses across the community to strengthen families, improve early childhood opportunities, and promote equitable access to high-quality resources. We work across systems to engage parents and caregivers, providers, and educators in nurturing children's early cognitive, emotional, and physical development. Our work includes family engagement events, community-based learning spaces, targeted outreach, and policy advocacy.
$235,759 spent50% of program spendingWinning start winnebago community advisory board as part of the ready to learn initiative, Alignment Rockford is the strategic partner of the winnebago county health department for winning start winnebago, a universal, countywide pre/neonatal system of support in convening and overseeing the community advisory board, a requirement of family connects international (fci), the home visiting model employed through winning start winnebago with the goal of tracking outcomes and efficacy of winning start winnebago efforts and supporting the program through community alignment. Early development instrument (edi) Alignment Rockford serves as the community administrator of the early development instrument (edi) winnebago county. This population-based tool captures data on child development across five key domains at the neighborhood level, helping local stakeholders identify strengths and gaps in early childhood support. In partnership with school districts and community organizations, the edi helps inform strategic investments and program design to better serve families and young children. Strong schools rooted in the science of resilience, the strong schools program combines community…
$231,436 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $467,195.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $165k to $402k (+144%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 93% · 2022 45% · 2023 75% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Mike Broski
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $33k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $61k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Rock River Valley). These are real filings, and they are not money ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD raised.
From the IRS filings of ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD’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.
How concentrated its funding is
ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 55% · 2019 78% · 2020 63% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
61% of ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $195k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD: 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 ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD?
- ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $501,000 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($296,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $501,000 in grants to ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD?
- Community Foundation of Northern IL is the largest funder on record, with $296,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALIGNMENT ROCKFORD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing