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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,193,500 to it, the largest being Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation ($1,700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$11M
4/5 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$2.6M

Recipients

1

Contributions on record

$2.2M

Donors on record

5

Payments out are 1.20x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2021 Revenue 106 ($1.4M) Expenses 56 ($924k) Net assets 106 ($11M)2022 Revenue 83 ($1.1M) Expenses 69 ($1.1M) Net assets 89 ($9.2M)2023 Revenue 63 ($851k) Expenses 61 ($1.0M) Net assets 99 ($10M)2024 Revenue 116 ($1.6M) Expenses 62 ($1.0M) Net assets 108 ($11M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (116)Expenses (62)Net assets (108)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $9.3M (−16%).

$10M
$11M
$9.3M
$10M
$11M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 20% · 2021 9% · 2022 12% · 2023 36% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$290k
’20
$511k
’21
−$8k
’22
−$154k
’23
$548k
’24
4.1
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

Jacob Lee

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed1612141414
Joined·+1+4+0+0
No longer listed·5200
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $350k → $426k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY’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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $485k 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 50%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,193,500 to it, the largest being Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation ($1,700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,193,500 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY?
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KANKAKEE RIVER VALLEY 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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