Illinois · Nonprofit
REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,427 to it, the largest being THREE PALMS FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $378k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Rend Lake College Foundation does
Mission
Rend Lake College Foundation (rlc foundation) exists for the purpose of stimulating major voluntary private support from alumni, retirees, friends, corporations, foundations, and others to the benefit of rend lake college (rlc). Rlc foundation strives to use current assets and acquire additional assets for identified areas of need as outlined by the college and to act in a fiduciary capacity in administering these assets for the good of rlc, its students, and the community it serves. Rlc foundation will raise funds in order to undertake the following activities: house and administer the rlc student scholarship program, build endowments, assist with rlc capital development projects, support rlc educational programs, and provide recognition opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships: rlc foundation raises money for rlc student scholarships. We work with community members, corporations, businesses and organizations to start annual and endowment scholarships. Scholarships are awarded to students who are enrolled at rlc. It is an ongoing program that rlc foundation is constantly soliciting donors for scholarships all year long.
$363,174 spentof which $363,174 as grants93% of program spendingRlc foundation annual golf outing: the rlc foundation annual golf outing is the biggest fundraiser of the year. We raise money through sponsorships of golf holes, golf carts, event sponsors, corporate sponsors, team sponsors, and general donations. This event makes it possible for us to pay some of our operating expenses.
$10,928 spent3% of program spendingThe game plan capital campaign to revitalize the rlc gym, athletic offices, restrooms, concession stand area, locker rooms, foyer, physical/sports therapy room:rlc foundation's capital campaign the game plan raised funds for the revitalization to the jim waugh gymnasium. Donations were solitited and made to help revitalize a more modern gym facilities that had not been touched for over 50 years. The revitalization addressed many things, such as more space that was needed, handicap bathrooms and as a recuiting tool for rlc to be able to recruit academicly strong athletes. This capital campaign is spread over 3 years.
$15,968 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $390,070.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.6M to $9.6M (+27%).
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.
54% of REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $14k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce). These are real filings, and they are not money REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of REND LAKE 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
REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 59% · 2022 45% · 2023 42% — 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
40% of REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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
REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like REND LAKE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rend Lake College · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REND LAKE COLLEGE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,427 to it, the largest being THREE PALMS FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $378,427 in grants to REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- THREE PALMS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REND LAKE 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 11 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