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LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $687 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$62k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$687
Grants received
$425k
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($47k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($156k)2018 Revenue 161 ($76k) Expenses 151 ($33k) Net assets 129 ($202k)2019 Revenue 157 ($74k) Expenses 175 ($39k) Net assets 155 ($243k)2020 Revenue 134 ($63k) Expenses 193 ($43k) Net assets 164 ($256k)2021 Revenue 67 ($32k) Expenses 144 ($32k) Net assets 194 ($303k)2022 Revenue 183 ($87k) Expenses 167 ($37k) Net assets 198 ($310k)2023 Revenue 91 ($43k) Expenses 246 ($54k) Net assets 204 ($319k)2024 Revenue 124 ($59k) Expenses 157 ($35k) Net assets 240 ($375k)2025 Revenue 131 ($62k) Expenses 199 ($44k) Net assets 272 ($425k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (199)Net assets (272)Peer revenue range

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

84% of LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,526 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
17
$43k
18
$36k
19
$20k
20
$75
21
$50k
22
$11k
23
$24k
24
$18k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $72.

Funder
'19
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB 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

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

27% 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 LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION.

73%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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

LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

88%

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

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION?
LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $687 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $687 in grants to LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF ROTARY CLUB 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing