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COMMONWEALTH CREDIT UNION

COMMONWEALTH CREDIT UNION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,547 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($31,547). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$16M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Commonwealth Credit Union does

Mission

Commonwealth Credit Union, building lifelong relationships one member at a time.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Commonwealth Credit Union serves members in kankakee, ford, iroquois, grundy, kendell, livingston and will counties in illinois by providing low cost financial services.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

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 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($7.6M)2018 Revenue 110 ($3.7M) Expenses 105 ($3.2M) Net assets 117 ($8.9M)2019 Revenue 124 ($4.1M) Expenses 114 ($3.4M) Net assets 125 ($9.4M)2020 Revenue 114 ($3.8M) Expenses 112 ($3.4M) Net assets 130 ($9.8M)2021 Revenue 125 ($4.2M) Expenses 109 ($3.3M) Net assets 143 ($11M)2022 Revenue 124 ($4.1M) Expenses 114 ($3.4M) Net assets 154 ($12M)2023 Revenue 154 ($5.1M) Expenses 134 ($4.1M) Net assets 169 ($13M)2024 Revenue 176 ($5.9M) Expenses 152 ($4.6M) Net assets 187 ($14M)2025 Revenue 183 ($6.1M) Expenses 151 ($4.5M) Net assets 209 ($16M)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (151)Net assets (209)

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 $85M to $97M (+14%).

$80M
$82M
$85M
$97M
$108M
$118M
$117M
$118M
$118M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$320k
’17
$496k
’18
$683k
’19
$435k
’20
$875k
’21
$698k
’22
$1.1M
’23
$1.3M
’24
$1.6M
’25
80
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

Kenneth Tousignant

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
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total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of COMMONWEALTH 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 COMMONWEALTH 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 COMMONWEALTH 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

7
board members
71%
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 COMMONWEALTH 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 COMMONWEALTH CREDIT UNION?
COMMONWEALTH CREDIT UNION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,547 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($31,547). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMONWEALTH CREDIT UNION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31,547 in grants to COMMONWEALTH CREDIT UNION.
Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH CREDIT UNION?
ILLINOIS CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,547 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH 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