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HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,179,230 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,220,103). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.5M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$5.2M
Net assets
$20M
11/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Heartland Community College Foundation does

Mission

To assist in developing and increasing the facilities of heartland community college and providing scholarships to hcc students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarships provided to heartland community college students based on restrictions set forth by donors and program donations to heartland community college.

    $1,965,117 spentof which $1,843,919 as grants$900 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,965,117.

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 ($725k) Expenses 100 ($568k) Net assets 100 ($6.4M)2018 Revenue 126 ($913k) Expenses 146 ($829k) Net assets 106 ($6.8M)2019 Revenue 179 ($1.3M) Expenses 179 ($1.0M) Net assets 116 ($7.4M)2020 Revenue 211 ($1.5M) Expenses 197 ($1.1M) Net assets 122 ($7.8M)2021 Revenue 212 ($1.5M) Expenses 152 ($862k) Net assets 157 ($10M)2022 Revenue 351 ($2.5M) Expenses 190 ($1.1M) Net assets 150 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 1074 ($7.8M) Expenses 252 ($1.4M) Net assets 258 ($17M)2024 Revenue 345 ($2.5M) Expenses 436 ($2.5M) Net assets 270 ($17M)2025 Revenue 615 ($4.5M) Expenses 218 ($1.2M) Net assets 310 ($20M)
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Revenue (615)Expenses (218)Net assets (310)

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 $9.8M to $17M (+71%).

$6.4M
$6.9M
$7.5M
$7.9M
$10M
$9.8M
$17M
$17M
$20M
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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

Surplus & reserves

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

$157k
’17
$84k
’18
$279k
’19
$410k
’20
$675k
’21
$1.5M
’22
$6.4M
’23
$28k
’24
$3.2M
’25
3.6
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

Chris Downing

Executive director

Board chair

Melissa Marx

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed323535343130363537
Joined·+7+10+1+3+6+8+7+8
No longer listed·410267286
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $12k → $175k.

10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Heartland Community College Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 23 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

HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

95% 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 HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

43%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 56% · 2019 97% · 2020 90% · 2021 94% · 2022 44% · 2023 29% — 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

56% of HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

92% of HEARTLAND COMMUNITY 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 $403k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Illinois funders.

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IL
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NC

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

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’20
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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Organizations like HEARTLAND 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

05Profile & 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 41%Fundraising 10%

Governance

35
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

  • Heartland Community College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,179,230 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,220,103). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $5,179,230 in grants to HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $2,220,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEARTLAND 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 23 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