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PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION

PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,329 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($262,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$664k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$364k
Net assets
$875k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Pekin Park Foundation does

Mission

To provide funding and acquisition assistance and in-kind donations for purchasing, developing,promoting and maintaining parks and buildlings, faciliities, equipment, supplies, activities, and programs for the pekin park district

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide funding and acquisition assistance and in-kind donations for purchasing, developing,promoting and maintaining parks and buildlings, faciliities, equipment, supplies, activities, and programs for the pekin park district

    $976,308 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $976,308.

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 ($893k) Expenses 100 ($107k) Net assets 100 ($869k)2018 Revenue 10 ($93k) Expenses 239 ($256k) Net assets 81 ($706k)2019 Revenue 68 ($606k) Expenses 140 ($150k) Net assets 134 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 65 ($584k) Expenses 628 ($672k) Net assets 124 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 12 ($105k) Expenses 119 ($128k) Net assets 118 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 7 ($59k) Expenses 3 ($3k) Net assets 124 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 20 ($177k) Expenses 67 ($72k) Net assets 137 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 74 ($664k) Expenses 913 ($976k) Net assets 101 ($875k)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (913)Net assets (101)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 2018 to 2019, from $706k to $1.2M (+65%).

$869k
$706k
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$875k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$786k
’17
−$163k
’18
$456k
’19
−$88k
’20
−$22k
’21
$56k
’22
$106k
’23
−$312k
’24
11
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.

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Listed88899999
Joined·+1+3+3+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·1320001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $62k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 PEKIN PARK 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

PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION.

72%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 81% — 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

78% of PEKIN PARK 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 $80k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
GA

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PEKIN PARK 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Pekin Park District · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION?
PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,329 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($262,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $364,329 in grants to PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEKIN PARK FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $262,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEKIN PARK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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