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FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP

FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,233 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$41k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$172k
0/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of Lake Bluff Park District Nfp does

Mission

To provide funding for parks and programs at park district

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Preschool playground

    $38,455 spentof which $38,455 as grants
    95% of program spending
  2. Golf course bottle filler

    $2,138 spentof which $2,138 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,593.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($84k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($150k)2022 Revenue 49 ($41k) Expenses 45 ($19k) Net assets 115 ($172k)
20212022
Revenue (49)Expenses (45)Net assets (115)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $150k to $172k (+15%).

$150k
$172k
20212022
Total assets

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.

2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’21
$22k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $833.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP’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

FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

62% 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 FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP.

62%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2023 70% — 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.

Where its funders are

62% of FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.

IL
NE
MO
TX

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

’18
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin53% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−51% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,485 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

Organizations like FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP?
FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,233 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $10,233 in grants to FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LAKE BLUFF PARK DISTRICT NFP 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing