Illinois · Nonprofit
THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA
THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,955 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES ($730,265). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $32M
What The Arc of the Quad Cities Area does
Mission
To empower people with disabilities to believe in their own unique abilities and achieve their full potential by providing quality, innovative services that focus on advocacy, inclusion, independence, employment, meaningful community life and personal happiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services (cila): The Arc of the Quad Cities Area provides community integrated living arrangements (cila) in 19 homes with up to eight residents in each. Each cila offers 24 hour program support to individuals residing in the group home and supports them both at home and in the community. Emphasis is placed on furthering development in independent living, economic self sufficiency, and community accessing. The agency also provides assistance in medication administration and behavior supports.
$8,624,056 spent$11,915,171 earned by the program53% of program spendingQc flex: operates as a mission-driven social enterprise providing inclusive employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The program engages workers in subcontracted production, service, and source america work within an integrated environment that emphasizes productivity, quality, and reliability. Qc flex is committed to being an employer of choice by offering fair and equitable wages and maintaining employment practices consistent with applicable safety standards and industry best practices.
$2,922,507 spent$2,116,271 earned by the program18% of program spendingCommunity day services: provides day services to people with disabilities and empowers them to reach their full potential. Participants are engaged in meaningful activities throughout the day that support people to build upon their strengths while engaging in chosen activities. Individuals who participate in day training also receive individualized services as outlined in their plan and may include assistive technology, social skill development, behavior support, and other therapies.
$2,242,158 spent$2,589,336 earned by the program14% of program spendingQuality support services: provides coordinated oversight, monitoring, and advocacy services to people served across agency programs. Quality support services includes case management, nursing oversight, transportation coordination, and maintenance coordination to support health, safety, and service continuity. The program ensures services are delivered in accordance with individual plans and regulatory requirements, and provides ongoing support to promote stability, responsiveness to changing needs, and quality outcomes for people served.
$1,168,386 spent$499,177 earned by the program7% of program spendingCommunity employment services (ces): develops work readiness skills to prepare workers for community-based opportunities. Assists workers to transition from traditional day programs to community-integrated jobs. The program focuses on creating employment opportunities that are a good fit for the employee and community employer.
$570,386 spent$158,292 earned by the program4% of program spending(cila) community support programs: assists individuals residing in their own home or apartment to maintain independent living. Emphasis is placed on maintaining independent living skills, economic self-sufficiency, self advocacy, social skills, and leisure skills. Respite care programs: provides adults and their families with professionally trained respite care. The program supports individuals with disabilities. Services include center and community activities scheduled monthly and by special request. Vacation or longer term respite may be accommodated based on availability.
$335,501 spent$312,172 earned by the program2% of program spendingAssistive technology: assistive technology strives to improve the potential of people with disabilities to achieve their goals through the use of adaptive equipment & technology. Using assistive technology equipment in the areas of augmentative/alternative communication, mobility, recreation, accessing the home and the environment, activities of daily living, computer accessing and work modifications.
$204,332 spent$134,866 earned by the program1% of program spendingBehavioral health: the behavioral health program exists to better serve the needs of the people with co-occurring intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health diagnoses. The department works with agency staff and community partners to ensure behavioral supports are individually designed and positive, emphasize learning, offer choice and social integration, are culturally appropriate and include modification of environments as needed.
$68,669 spent$17,390 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,135,995.
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 2023 to 2024, from $30M to $33M (+10%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Michael Glanz
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $101k → $135k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA’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
THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 74% · 2019 65% · 2020 56% · 2021 74% · 2022 59% · 2023 41% — 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
58% of THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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.
Against its field
THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.9M on record.
- Department of Defense$6.9M
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 THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Arc of the Quad Cities Iowa · exempt
- Dove Ventures · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA?
- THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,955 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES ($730,265). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,265,955 in grants to THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA?
- UNITED WAY QUAD CITIES is the largest funder on record, with $730,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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