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RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING

RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,937 to it, the largest being THE KATHERINE U & RONALD W TAKVORIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($11,937). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$16M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$143M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging does

Program

Unspent grants returns by grantees

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($149M)2021 Revenue 527 ($24M) Expenses 109 ($15M) Net assets 106 ($158M)2022 Revenue 29 ($1.3M) Expenses 79 ($11M) Net assets 87 ($129M)2023 Revenue 96 ($4.4M) Expenses 75 ($10M) Net assets 93 ($138M)2024 Revenue 338 ($16M) Expenses 107 ($14M) Net assets 97 ($143M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (338)Expenses (107)Net assets (97)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $165M to $134M (−19%).

$154M
$165M
$134M
$141M
$147M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

Board chair

Ruth Ann Watkins

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

20202021202220232024
Listed1010101211
Joined·+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $1k.

From the IRS filings of RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING’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.

Where its funders are

RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

MA

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

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’19
’20
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING?
RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,937 to it, the largest being THE KATHERINE U & RONALD W TAKVORIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($11,937). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,937 in grants to RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING?
THE KATHERINE U & RONALD W TAKVORIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,937 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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