Illinois · Nonprofit
ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY
ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,905 to it, the largest being CHARLES & MARIE VON WEISE ($91,803). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $464k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Rockford Day Nursery does
Mission
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Please see schedule o.Rockford Day Nursery early learning center has been providing care for children in the rockford, illinois area since 1916. We have been licensed with the department of children and family services since 1941. Our organization was recognized on november 1, 1944 under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. The 61104 zip code, in which the center is located, encompasses one of the most ethnically diverse and impoverished neighborhoods in the united states, according to a marketing study that was completed prior to our relocation in 2005. Organized as a not-for-profit corporation the nursery is governed by a volunteer board of directors from within the community. Rockford Day Nursery's board of directors is very knowledgeable in the day to day operations of the center and actively volunteers in the areas of administration, parent education and involvement, building and grounds projects, and special social events for our families, such as preschool graduation and our annual christmas party. Board members serve 3 year terms and can serve for three consecutive terms if they so choose. Approximately one third of our board turns each year and new members are…
$643,550 spent$20,998 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $643,550.
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.
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 $2.8M to $3.3M (+15%).
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: 2017 87% · 2018 82% · 2019 86% · 2020 86% · 2021 88% · 2022 94% · 2023 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $2k → $28k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 DAY NURSERY’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 DAY NURSERY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 33% · 2019 81% · 2020 45% · 2021 40% · 2022 55% · 2023 66% — broadly stable.
“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
60% of ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
93% of ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 DAY NURSERY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 DAY NURSERY: 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 DAY NURSERY?
- ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,905 to it, the largest being CHARLES & MARIE VON WEISE ($91,803). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $180,905 in grants to ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY?
- CHARLES & MARIE VON WEISE is the largest funder on record, with $91,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKFORD DAY NURSERY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 13 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