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Rock Falls American Legion Post 902

Rock Falls American Legion Post 902 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN STATE HANDS ON INC ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$84k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$343k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Rock Falls American Legion Post 902 does

Mission

Services for Members, Veterans and Community

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships for College Students

  2. Benefits paid to/for Members and Veterans: Honor Guard 159, Memorial Day Foundation 1,675 Convension Expenses 1,133, Benefits Paid to/for Mem/Vet 89

  3. Donation to/for community: Child Welfare 100; Boy State 900; AUX 902 517; CGH Health 100; Memorial Foundations 25; Rock Falls High School 140; Meals on Wheels 200; BiCounty 200; April House 200; Self Help 100; Sinissippi Center 200; Paralyzed Veterans of Americans 100 Sterling Moose 75; Sauk Valley C of C 100; National Child Safety 200; Mohawks 200; Salvation Army 200; Sterling RF Pool League 75; RF VFW 907; Sterling Post 296 907; Whiteside County Honor Flight 1000; Special Olympics 80; Rock River Hospice 200; Wonded Warrior Proj 200; March of Dimes 50; RF Police Operation Santa Claus 250; Shreiners 100; St Vicent De Paul 200; Leader Dogs 100; Misc 1,400

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($114k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 100 ($345k)2019 Revenue 70 ($80k) Expenses 98 ($85k) Net assets 96 ($332k)2020 Revenue 40 ($46k) Expenses 64 ($55k) Net assets 93 ($322k)2021 Revenue 69 ($79k) Expenses 67 ($58k) Net assets 98 ($338k)2022 Revenue 69 ($79k) Expenses 80 ($69k) Net assets 98 ($339k)2023 Revenue 43 ($49k) Expenses 86 ($74k) Net assets 93 ($322k)2024 Revenue 74 ($84k) Expenses 74 ($64k) Net assets 99 ($343k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (74)Expenses (74)Net assets (99)

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 $325k to $347k (+7%).

$349k
$337k
$322k
$339k
$340k
$325k
$347k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$9k
’20
$22k
’21
$10k
’22
−$25k
’23
$20k
’24
38
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.

Board chair

Roger Jacobs

Scholarship Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed13733333
Joined·+0+2+0+1+2+0
No longer listed·660120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Rock Falls American Legion Post 902’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

Rock Falls American Legion Post 902 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

WV

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 Rock Falls American Legion Post 902

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.

Where the money goes

15% of spending goes to programs.

Program 15%Management 85%Fundraising 0%

Governance

247
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Rock Falls American Legion Post 902?
Rock Falls American Legion Post 902 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being MOUNTAIN STATE HANDS ON INC ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Rock Falls American Legion Post 902 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16,000 in grants to Rock Falls American Legion Post 902.
Who is the largest funder of Rock Falls American Legion Post 902?
MOUNTAIN STATE HANDS ON INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Rock Falls American Legion Post 902 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.

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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 2018–2024), 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