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FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,965,390 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,567,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
$17M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Friends of McHenry County College Foundation does

Mission

Together with our community we build financial support for student learning and success.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation assists in development and expansion of educational facilities and provides scholarships for students. The foundation benefits all students, alumni and local residents.

    $1,585,119 spentof which $1,562,344 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,585,119.

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 ($5.9M) Expenses 100 ($333k) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 48 ($2.9M) Expenses 1338 ($4.4M) Net assets 81 ($8.6M)2019 Revenue 65 ($3.8M) Expenses 1001 ($3.3M) Net assets 86 ($9.2M)2020 Revenue 12 ($698k) Expenses 1183 ($3.9M) Net assets 55 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 77 ($4.6M) Expenses 239 ($795k) Net assets 100 ($11M)2022 Revenue 15 ($911k) Expenses 275 ($913k) Net assets 99 ($11M)2023 Revenue 109 ($6.4M) Expenses 263 ($875k) Net assets 154 ($16M)2024 Revenue 79 ($4.6M) Expenses 1989 ($6.6M) Net assets 143 ($15M)2025 Revenue 36 ($2.1M) Expenses 529 ($1.8M) Net assets 157 ($17M)
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Revenue (36)Expenses (529)Net assets (157)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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $16M (+54%).

$11M
$8.6M
$9.3M
$5.9M
$11M
$11M
$16M
$20M
$17M
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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

61% of FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 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.

$5.6M
’17
−$1.6M
’18
$504k
’19
−$3.2M
’20
$3.8M
’21
−$2k
’22
$5.5M
’23
−$2.0M
’24
$352k
’25
8.2
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.

Chief executive

Brian Dibona

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111215131519151821
Joined·+2+5+3+4+7+1+4+9
No longer listed·12523516
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $11k → $1.6M.

8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE 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

FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% 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 MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

40%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 68% · 2020 48% · 2021 88% · 2022 32% · 2023 64% — 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

50% of FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

79% of FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION'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 $835k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Illinois funders.

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

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

47%

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

  • McHenry County College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,965,390 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,567,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,965,390 in grants to FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,567,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MCHENRY COUNTY 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 18 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