Illinois · Nonprofit
North Channel Community Rowing
North Channel Community Rowing (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,269 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($62,569). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $75k
What North Channel Community Rowing does
Mission
Supporting diversity and access to the sport of rowing through youth programs targeting under-represented students in the local communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Summer rowing program featuring 2 week-long camps. Camps included learning to row in indoor tanks,indoor machines and on the water.
$25,595 spent55% of program spendingFall rowing program featuring a week-long camp includinglearning how to row in various settings.
$15,363 spent33% of program spendingAway Camp to take campers to Craftsbury, VermontRowing Camp for additional rowing instructionand opportunities
$5,302 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,260.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $57k to $78k (+37%).
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.
93% of North Channel Community Rowing’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $29k → $35k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 North Channel Community Rowing’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
North Channel Community Rowing leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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
73% 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 North Channel Community Rowing.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 62% · 2022 50% · 2023 45% — 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
73% of North Channel Community Rowing'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
North Channel Community Rowing runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like North Channel Community Rowing
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.
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for North Channel Community Rowing: 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 North Channel Community Rowing?
- North Channel Community Rowing (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,269 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($62,569). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does North Channel Community Rowing have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $164,269 in grants to North Channel Community Rowing, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of North Channel Community Rowing?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Channel Community Rowing 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing