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RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being WESTCONSIN CREDIT UNION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$378k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$70k
Net assets
$2.5M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What River Falls Economic Development Corporation does

Mission

River Falls Economic Development Corporation (rfedc) is a voluntary non- profit organization that collaborates with the city of river falls, pierce county economic development corporation, st. Croix economic development corporation, and the wisconsin economic development corporation on economic development to increase employment opportunities through industrial development.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assist new business start ups and provide rental or new construction opportunities for new and existing businesses in the city of river falls.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 29 ($371k) Expenses 881 ($197k) Net assets 107 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 14 ($186k) Expenses 1061 ($237k) Net assets 104 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 14 ($175k) Expenses 1011 ($226k) Net assets 102 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 20 ($264k) Expenses 1247 ($279k) Net assets 101 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 18 ($235k) Expenses 1205 ($269k) Net assets 101 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 26 ($330k) Expenses 1221 ($273k) Net assets 103 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 29 ($378k) Expenses 1255 ($281k) Net assets 107 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (29)Expenses (1255)Net assets (107)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $3.9M (+17%).

$3.3M
$3.9M
$3.8M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.8M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2018 49% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$1.3M
’17
$174k
’18
−$52k
’19
−$51k
’20
−$15k
’21
−$35k
’22
$57k
’23
$98k
’24
13
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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Listed912111112121312
Joined·+5+4+1+2+1+1+1
No longer listed·2511102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.

Funder
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'21
total
$50k
Royal Credit Unionunclassified
$20k
funders
2
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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 FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

100% of RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

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

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’21
Wisconsin 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 RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being WESTCONSIN CREDIT UNION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $70,000 in grants to RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
WESTCONSIN CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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