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CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION

CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,320,534 to it, the largest being DONNINI-RUDOLPH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($885,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$822k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$1.8M
6/15 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Champaign Parks Foundation does

Mission

Carry out capital campaigns, management and acceptance of donations and gifts to and strictly for the benefit of the champaign park district.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The historic virginia theatre completed a replacement of the theatrical rigging control system.

    $476,674 spentof which $455,023 as grants
    39% of program spending
  2. The foundation contributed to the douglass ballfield improvements.

    $512,467 spentof which $512,467 as grants
    42% of program spending
  3. The foundation/park district has miscellaneous program services which include memorials, scholarships & park district improvements.

    $240,016 spentof which $138,305 as grants
    20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,229,157.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($110k) Net assets 100 ($796k)2018 Revenue 1954 ($4.5M) Expenses 212 ($234k) Net assets 638 ($5.1M)2019 Revenue 592 ($1.4M) Expenses 96 ($106k) Net assets 796 ($6.3M)2020 Revenue 139 ($320k) Expenses 758 ($837k) Net assets 729 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 104 ($239k) Expenses 1770 ($2.0M) Net assets 516 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 123 ($284k) Expenses 3100 ($3.4M) Net assets 121 ($963k)2023 Revenue 533 ($1.2M) Expenses 325 ($359k) Net assets 231 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 224 ($518k) Expenses 110 ($121k) Net assets 280 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 356 ($822k) Expenses 1126 ($1.2M) Net assets 227 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (356)Expenses (1126)Net assets (227)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $814k to $5.1M (+525%).

$814k
$5.1M
$6.3M
$5.9M
$4.5M
$977k
$2.0M
$2.3M
$1.9M
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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

88% of CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$120k
’17
$4.3M
’18
$1.3M
’19
−$518k
’20
−$1.7M
’21
−$3.1M
’22
$871k
’23
$396k
’24
−$421k
’25
18
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.

Board chair

Amy Roady

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121011111213101415
Joined·+2+3+1+2+3+2+10+1
No longer listed·42112560
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $361k.

5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION’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

CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

27% 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 CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION.

67%
largest funder
81%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 55% · 2020 86% · 2021 87% · 2022 35% · 2023 86% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

44% of CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
IN
NJ
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−51% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve17.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Champaign Park District · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION?
CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,320,534 to it, the largest being DONNINI-RUDOLPH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($885,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,320,534 in grants to CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION?
DONNINI-RUDOLPH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $885,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHAMPAIGN PARKS FOUNDATION 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 15 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