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RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,761 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($1,567,406). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.4M
Revenue FY2025
23
Funders on record
$4.2M
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
13/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%

Against its field

RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 76 ($1.0M) Expenses 92 ($1.2M) Net assets 96 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 71 ($974k) Expenses 93 ($1.2M) Net assets 85 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 144 ($2.0M) Expenses 116 ($1.5M) Net assets 104 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 130 ($1.8M) Expenses 132 ($1.7M) Net assets 109 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 182 ($2.5M) Expenses 156 ($2.0M) Net assets 129 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 207 ($2.8M) Expenses 180 ($2.3M) Net assets 150 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 214 ($2.9M) Expenses 207 ($2.6M) Net assets 163 ($4.2M)2025 Revenue 173 ($2.4M) Expenses 168 ($2.1M) Net assets 172 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (168)Net assets (172)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% · 2024 41% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,406 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$104k
17
$124k
18
$201k
19
$504k
20
$106k
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$517k
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$557k
23
$310k
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$239k
25
4.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $174k → $1.1M.

7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)17% 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 RIVERWORKS 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

RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

38%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 67% · 2019 48% · 2020 26% · 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 68%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.

How long its funders stay

88% of RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 7 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
VA
DC

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $268k on record.

Federal$268k
grants $268kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$193k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$75k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 13%Fundraising 4%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 7 related entities

  • 3901 N Richards St LLC · disregarded
  • 3372 N Holton St LLC · disregarded
  • Five Point Exchange Holdings LLC · disregarded
  • Riverworks City Center LLC · disregarded
  • Keefe Avenue Crossing LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVERWORKS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,761 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($1,567,406). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,177,761 in grants to RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,567,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVERWORKS 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.

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 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing