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TRANSFORM ROCKFORD

TRANSFORM ROCKFORD (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,707,500 to it, the largest being Woodward Charitable Trust ($1,440,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$115k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$813k
Net assets
6/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

TRANSFORM ROCKFORD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve84.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement 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 ($333k) Expenses 100 ($658k) Net assets 100 ($943k)2018 Revenue 102 ($338k) Expenses 63 ($412k) Net assets 92 ($869k)2019 Revenue 107 ($355k) Expenses 65 ($428k) Net assets 84 ($796k)2020 Revenue 124 ($412k) Expenses 68 ($450k) Net assets 80 ($757k)2021 Revenue 125 ($416k) Expenses 58 ($379k) Net assets 84 ($794k)2022 Revenue 31 ($104k) Expenses 35 ($233k) Net assets 71 ($666k)2023 Revenue 76 ($253k) Expenses 16 ($105k) Net assets 86 ($813k)2024 Revenue 35 ($115k) Expenses 18 ($116k) Net assets 86 ($813k)
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Revenue (35)Expenses (18)Net assets (86)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $225k → $75k.

Funder
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total
funders
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2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $15k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest SwedishAmerican Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TRANSFORM ROCKFORD raised.

From the IRS filings of TRANSFORM ROCKFORD’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

TRANSFORM ROCKFORD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 94% · 2019 69% · 2020 81% · 2021 91% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — 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

100% of TRANSFORM ROCKFORD's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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. $41k 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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 248 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 TRANSFORM ROCKFORD

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

Rockford Sharefest68%Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives66%Rockford Community Investment Fund65%Rockford Promise65%Rockford Park District Foundation63%The Rock Island Community Foundation63%Rockford Corridor Improvement Inc62%Rockford Computers for Schools Nfp62%

Nationally

Rochford Foundation69%Rockford Sharefest68%Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives66%Rockford Community Investment Fund65%Rockford Promise65%Rockford Area Historical Society64%Rockford Area Community Endowment64%Rockford Park District Foundation63%
04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANSFORM ROCKFORD: 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 TRANSFORM ROCKFORD?
TRANSFORM ROCKFORD (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,707,500 to it, the largest being Woodward Charitable Trust ($1,440,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRANSFORM ROCKFORD have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,707,500 in grants to TRANSFORM ROCKFORD, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRANSFORM ROCKFORD?
Woodward Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRANSFORM ROCKFORD 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