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ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,181 to it, the largest being SHEILA JUNE HEWITT CHARITABLE TRUST ($225,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$187k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$364k
Net assets
$1.3M
6/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Rock Island County Historical Society does

Mission

The society's mission is to collect preserve and disseminate information related to the history of rock island county illinois

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Rock Island County Historical Society maintains a historical house and library to encourage historical inquiry

    $147,973 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $147,973.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($119k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 103 ($130k) Expenses 121 ($144k) Net assets 99 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 169 ($213k) Expenses 105 ($125k) Net assets 105 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 86 ($109k) Expenses 121 ($145k) Net assets 111 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 118 ($148k) Expenses 88 ($105k) Net assets 123 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 25 ($31k) Expenses 99 ($118k) Net assets 114 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 172 ($217k) Expenses 124 ($148k) Net assets 119 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 148 ($187k) Expenses 149 ($177k) Net assets 130 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (149)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+11%).

$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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

70% of ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
−$15k
’18
$88k
’19
−$36k
’20
$44k
’21
−$87k
’22
$69k
’23
$10k
’24
19
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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Listed1717141514151612
Joined·+0+4+4+2+3+2+0
No longer listed·0733214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $91k.

1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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

ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

62%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 98% · 2021 73% · 2022 60% · 2023 39% — 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

80% of ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

IL
IA
DC

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

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve19.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,181 to it, the largest being SHEILA JUNE HEWITT CHARITABLE TRUST ($225,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $364,181 in grants to ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
SHEILA JUNE HEWITT CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROCK ISLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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