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SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION

SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,118 to it, the largest being LONG GENE AND MARIE MEMORIAL TUA ($113,120). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$614k
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$247k
Grants received
$7.8M
Net assets
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve69.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($459k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 97 ($443k) Expenses 146 ($260k) Net assets 106 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 79 ($362k) Expenses 78 ($138k) Net assets 114 ($4.2M)2020 Revenue 109 ($499k) Expenses 134 ($238k) Net assets 121 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 192 ($880k) Expenses 167 ($298k) Net assets 153 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 245 ($1.1M) Expenses 194 ($346k) Net assets 153 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 170 ($779k) Expenses 213 ($380k) Net assets 167 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 251 ($1.2M) Expenses 255 ($455k) Net assets 195 ($7.2M)2025 Revenue 134 ($614k) Expenses 248 ($443k) Net assets 211 ($7.8M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (248)Net assets (211)Peer revenue range

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

70% of SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$281k
17
$183k
18
$224k
19
$261k
20
$582k
21
$778k
22
$399k
23
$697k
24
$171k
25
70
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $59k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% 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 SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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

SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

46%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 46% · 2019 93% · 2020 62% · 2021 51% · 2022 55% · 2023 47%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

44% of SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.

IL
NV
IA
NJ

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. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 17%Fundraising 17%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

81%

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 SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: 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 SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,118 to it, the largest being LONG GENE AND MARIE MEMORIAL TUA ($113,120). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $247,118 in grants to SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPOON RIVER COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
LONG GENE AND MARIE MEMORIAL TUA is the largest funder on record, with $113,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPOON RIVER 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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing