Wisconsin · Nonprofit
RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION
RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,027 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $80k
What River Valley Commons Corporation does
Mission
Form 990=ez, part iii, line 28, program service accomplishments: broadband initiative: we were able to have a full-time american connection corps member working with us to provide technology assistance for individuals and groups beginning in august 2025. We also continued to share information about broadband projects in our area and advocate for better internet for our communities. Form 990-ez, part iii, line 29, program service accomplishements: savor the river valley: savor the river valley seeks to promote the prosperity and well-being of the communities within the river valley school district and those who live there by connecting and supporting those in food production and food service, and enabling food-related businesses to more effectively attract and serve the visitors who travel to the area. In 2025, their farm and food tour attracted more than 600 visitors to the area. They coninued their winter scholl program and porduced a guide to local restaurants. Form 990-ez, part iii, line 30: morrill lecture series: in 2025, the morrill lecture series hosted six events around the theme of thriving together: healthy lands, people and communities and partnered with savor the river…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$3,543 spent8% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$20,182 spent45% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$13,981 spent31% of program spendingOther program services
$7,178 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,884.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $147k to $85k (−42%).
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.
65% of RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Joy Kirkpatrick
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $11k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 VALLEY COMMONS 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 VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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
RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,647 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVER VALLEY COMMONS 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 VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION?
- RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,027 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $56,027 in grants to RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVER VALLEY COMMONS CORPORATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVER VALLEY COMMONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing