Illinois · Nonprofit
ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL
ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,148 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($934,745). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $736k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $398k
What Rockford Area Arts Council does
Mission
The Rockford Area Arts Council (raac) exists to support, promote, and develop access to the arts for everyone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artsplace - summer internship program for youth ages 14-18. Youth work on teams supervised and guided by professional artists to create original works in theater, dance, literature, and visual arts.
Our town/nea - an arts program done in partnership with rockford housing authority to assist low-income adults to develop artistic talents and develop business opportunities with and for them.
All other programs.
$547,186 spent100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $547,186.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $433k to $560k (+29%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 26% · 2019 27% · 2020 46% · 2021 39% · 2022 53% · 2023 71% · 2024 64% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Thomas Weightman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $96k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL’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
ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 48% · 2022 78% · 2023 33% — 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
71% of ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
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
74% of ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $342k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $971k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.5M
- National Endowment for the Arts$295k
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 ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL: 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 ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL?
- ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,148 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($934,745). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,313,148 in grants to ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL?
- Community Foundation of Northern IL is the largest funder on record, with $934,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 24 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