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ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,657,399 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($573,855). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.8M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$23M
22/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Rock Valley College Foundation does

Mission

The Rock Valley College Foundation's mission is to build regional relationships and secure resources to advance rvc and its students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The rvc foundation awarded 401 scholarship awards to students attending rock valley college. These funds totaled $658,864.

    $658,864 spentof which $658,864 as grants
    80% of program spending
  2. Contributions to rock valley college during the year ended june 30, 2025. The rvc foundation provided cash grants and assistance totaling $101,330. The rvc foundation secured and/or managed program funds to support 80 unique programs within rock valley college ranging from student clubs, educational resources, campus beautification, and more.

    $141,094 spentof which $101,330 as grants
    17% of program spending
  3. Through emergency relief fund awards, the rvc foundation helped keep 30 students enrolled and on track to completion during unexpected financial crisis. These funds totaled $25,689.

    $25,689 spentof which $25,689 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $825,647.

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 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 55 ($2.0M) Expenses 308 ($3.2M) Net assets 94 ($14M)2019 Revenue 35 ($1.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 96 ($14M)2020 Revenue 37 ($1.4M) Expenses 121 ($1.2M) Net assets 93 ($14M)2021 Revenue 53 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 113 ($16M)2022 Revenue 61 ($2.2M) Expenses 95 ($972k) Net assets 107 ($16M)2023 Revenue 55 ($2.0M) Expenses 110 ($1.1M) Net assets 117 ($17M)2024 Revenue 30 ($1.1M) Expenses 136 ($1.4M) Net assets 128 ($19M)2025 Revenue 130 ($4.8M) Expenses 139 ($1.4M) Net assets 154 ($23M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (139)Net assets (154)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 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $24M (+17%).

$15M
$14M
$15M
$15M
$17M
$16M
$18M
$20M
$24M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

63% of ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 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.

$2.6M
’17
−$1.1M
’18
$226k
’19
$122k
’20
$928k
’21
$1.3M
’22
$899k
’23
−$284k
’24
$3.3M
’25
4.0
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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Listed211918182019191719
Joined·+1+2+0+4+2+1+1+2
No longer listed·33023130
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $108k → $367k.

9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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 VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

44% 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 ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

22%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 54% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 55% · 2022 42% · 2023 34% — 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

40% of ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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WI
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TX

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $954k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin70% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 32%Fundraising 10%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

58%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,657,399 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($573,855). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,657,399 in grants to ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
Community Foundation of Northern IL is the largest funder on record, with $573,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.

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 36 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