Illinois · Nonprofit
ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,861,546 to it, the largest being Motorola Solutions Foundation ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $982k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Elgin Community College Foundation does
Mission
The Elgin Community College Foundation was established in 1984 as a 501(c)3 organization to maximize access to an exceptional education that will improve lives and strengthen our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation oversees more than 250 individual scholarships. These funds produced 398 awards supporting the educational commitment of 375 students in the 2023-2024 academic year. Scholarship awards are made based on criteria established by donors, which may include but is not limited to academic excellence, demonstrated leadership strengths, specific programs of study, students who have overcome physical and life obstacles, and financial need.
$462,431 spentof which $462,431 as grants53% of program spendingContributions to elgin community college include funding for innovative faculty projects, equipment for academic programs, and student leadership development. In addition to academic support, resources have also been extended to support the spartan food pantry for students struggling with food insecurity while trying to be successful in college, the student emergency fund providing gap funding to help students stay in school when an unforeseen emergency occurs that may prevent academic persistence, and the child care fund assisting single, low-income parents who are enrolled at the college.
$417,810 spentof which $417,810 as grants47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $880,241.
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.
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 $12M to $15M (+25%).
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.
96% of ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Susan Taylor-Demming
Executive director (thru 06/30/25)
Board chair
Jenni Betancourt
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $57k → $72k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 funders by total. 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
ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 54% · 2019 39% · 2020 67% · 2021 35% · 2022 39% · 2023 90% — 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.
How long its funders stay
23% of ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: 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 ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,861,546 to it, the largest being Motorola Solutions Foundation ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,861,546 in grants to ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- Motorola Solutions Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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 27 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