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TREND Community Development Corporation

TREND Community Development Corporation (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,440,900 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($686,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$465k
6/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 88%
01What it does

What TREND Community Development Corporation does

Mission

TREND Community Development Corporation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that is organized for charitable, literary, educational or religious purposes, including but not limited to fostering inclusive economic growth in neighborhoods, cities, and regions through the creation and dissemination of new data, research, tools, and practices.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Advance Strategic Real Estate Development - Improve service-oriented community shopping centers in urban neighborhoods. Support efforts that complement the shopping center development including climate-positive improvements, crime reduction, and adjacent community development. Organize education and outreach programs to enable community members, local entrepreneurs, and other small impact investors to invest and financially benefit from commercial property ownership.

    $708,487 spent
    72% of program spending
  2. Strengthen Inclusive Economic Development - Advise community-based organizations, developers, and foundations on creating, advancing, and investing in catalytic commercial real estate and other development projects. Create and disseminate data, research, tools, and practices that inform and advance the inclusive economic development ecosystem.

    $243,100 spent
    25% of program spending
  3. Support Minority-Owned Small Business Growth - Connect and/or provide resources, including financing and technical assistance, that help minority-owned businesses grow their operations.

    $30,280 spent
    3% of program spending
  4. All other programs

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $981,867.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($445k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($323k)2021 Revenue 236 ($1.0M) Expenses 704 ($1.0M) Net assets 107 ($345k)2022 Revenue 377 ($1.7M) Expenses 710 ($1.0M) Net assets 322 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 90 ($400k) Expenses 915 ($1.3M) Net assets 33 ($107k)2024 Revenue 349 ($1.6M) Expenses 819 ($1.2M) Net assets 144 ($465k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (349)Expenses (819)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

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 $332k to $10M (+2912%).

$395k
$400k
$1.1M
$332k
$10M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 11% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of TREND Community Development Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$299k
’20
$22k
’21
$642k
’22
−$936k
’23
$359k
’24
1.7
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed77888
Joined·+0+6+0+1
No longer listed·0501
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $175k → $350k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TREND Community Development Corporation’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

TREND Community Development Corporation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

20%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 34% · 2023 57% — 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

20% of TREND Community Development Corporation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

TREND Community Development Corporation draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 8 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
MD

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $685k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TREND Community Development Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TREND Community Development Corporation

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

  • Chicago TREND Corporation · exempt
  • RW Ventures LLC · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TREND Community Development Corporation: 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 TREND Community Development Corporation?
TREND Community Development Corporation (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,440,900 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($686,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TREND Community Development Corporation have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,440,900 in grants to TREND Community Development Corporation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TREND Community Development Corporation?
SURDNA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $686,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TREND Community Development Corporation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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