Illinois · Nonprofit
River City Community Development Center
River City Community Development Center (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,180,526 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($510,012). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $543k
What River City Community Development Center does
Mission
River City Community Development Center exists to bring together the best of our city to build a path for families to walk from cradle to career to the glory of God. The organization provides after-school and summer programs as well as leadership training and apprenticeships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dreambuilders, Peacebuilders, and Hopebuilders mentoring programs provide small group mentoring for grades pre-K through 8th five days weekly. In 2024, R CITY mentoring programs provided 24,500 hours of youth mentoring to 132 participants. Mentoring activities included academic support, STEAM exploration, high-interest field trips, physical activity, social-emotional learning, conflict resolution coaching, and victim services. Community outreach events serving mentees' friends and family welcomed 826 attendees across 11 events.
$620,253 spentof which $5,348 as grants$56,718 earned by the program57% of program spendingCitybuilders apprenticeships train youth and young adults ages 12-24 in career skills and endurance through the masonry trade of tuckpointing. Apprentices participate in classroom learning, for which they earn a stipend, and hands-on community service. In 2024, R CITY apprenticed 68 youth and paid $84,459 in educational stipends. Apprentices completed 9,500 hours of hands-on training in their assigned trade.
$461,242 spentof which $84,459 as grants$9,100 earned by the program42% of program spendingSuccessbuilders scholarships mitigate financial barriers to success for post-secondary students who graduated from River City Community Church or R CITY. In 2024, R CITY awarded $ 15,089 to 11 scholars, as well as linking young adults to career and affordable housing opportunities and an ongoing network of support.
$15,089 spentof which $15,089 as grants$6,000 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,096,584.
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 2022 to 2023, from $268k to $733k (+173%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 18% · 2022 41% · 2023 63% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of River City Community Development Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Charnesha Collier
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $51k → $210k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 River City Community Development Center’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
River City Community Development Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% 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
86% 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 River City Community Development Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 78% · 2019 40% · 2020 39% · 2021 78% · 2022 36% · 2023 55% — 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
43% of River City Community Development Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
81% of River City Community Development Center'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 $224k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $957k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
River City Community Development Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like River City Community Development Center
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for River City Community Development Center: 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 River City Community Development Center?
- River City Community Development Center (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,180,526 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($510,012). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does River City Community Development Center have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,180,526 in grants to River City Community Development Center, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of River City Community Development Center?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $510,012 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like River City Community Development Center 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 12 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