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THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION

THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,211 to it, the largest being GPD Charitable Trust ($25,411). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$183k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$69k
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%

Against its field

THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve287.8mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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 ($112k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($616k)2018 Revenue 61 ($68k) Expenses 114 ($62k) Net assets 101 ($623k)2019 Revenue 36 ($40k) Expenses 143 ($77k) Net assets 95 ($586k)2020 Revenue 86 ($96k) Expenses 101 ($55k) Net assets 102 ($627k)2021 Revenue 318 ($355k) Expenses 162 ($87k) Net assets 154 ($949k)2022 Revenue 344 ($384k) Expenses 117 ($63k) Net assets 171 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 81 ($90k) Expenses 349 ($189k) Net assets 220 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 164 ($183k) Expenses 140 ($76k) Net assets 295 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (140)Net assets (295)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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

56% of THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$58k
17
$7k
18
$37k
19
$41k
20
$267k
21
$320k
22
$99k
23
$107k
24
288
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $21k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)44% 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 CHERYL RABINE 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

THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

54% 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 CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION.

37%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2021 28% · 2022 0% · 2023 26%growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

IL
FL

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

17
21
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

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 THE CHERYL RABINE 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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

55%

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

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Bvgc LLC · partnership
  • Rabine Paving LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHERYL RABINE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION?
THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,211 to it, the largest being GPD Charitable Trust ($25,411). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $69,211 in grants to THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION?
GPD Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $25,411 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CHERYL RABINE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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