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WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,167 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FUND ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$708k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$360k
Net assets
$8.2M
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Waubonsee Community College Foundation does

Mission

The Waubonsee Community College Foundation was formed to advance the educational and charitable purposes of waubonsee community college. The primary objective of the foundation is to raise funds for student scholarships and educational programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The wccf provided 382 scholarships to students attending wcc.

    $330,264 spentof which $330,264 as grants
    90% of program spending
  2. The wccf paid $36,080 to waubonsee community college for donations received to support specific educational programs at the college.

    $36,080 spentof which $36,080 as grants
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $366,344.

02The 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 ($549k) Expenses 100 ($328k) Net assets 100 ($4.7M)2018 Revenue 138 ($756k) Expenses 98 ($320k) Net assets 108 ($5.1M)2019 Revenue 117 ($645k) Expenses 156 ($512k) Net assets 120 ($5.6M)2020 Revenue 68 ($372k) Expenses 155 ($507k) Net assets 116 ($5.5M)2021 Revenue 94 ($518k) Expenses 122 ($399k) Net assets 139 ($6.5M)2022 Revenue 73 ($404k) Expenses 127 ($416k) Net assets 123 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 187 ($1.0M) Expenses 136 ($447k) Net assets 142 ($6.7M)2024 Revenue 122 ($669k) Expenses 139 ($457k) Net assets 156 ($7.4M)2025 Revenue 129 ($708k) Expenses 131 ($431k) Net assets 174 ($8.2M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (131)Net assets (174)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 2020 to 2021, from $5.5M to $6.6M (+19%).

$4.7M
$5.1M
$5.6M
$5.5M
$6.6M
$5.8M
$6.7M
$7.4M
$8.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

59% of WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$221k
’17
$436k
’18
$133k
’19
−$135k
’20
$119k
’21
−$13k
’22
$581k
’23
$212k
’24
$277k
’25
6.6
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.

Chief executive

Melinda Tejada Edd

Executive director of the foundation

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed272727272827242932
Joined·+3+3+2+4+7+6+5+12
No longer listed·33238909
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $108k → $4k.

6 of 15 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 WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY 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

WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

46% 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 WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

28%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 63% · 2019 79% · 2020 49% · 2021 58% · 2022 63% · 2023 67% — 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 WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
OH
MO
DE
FL

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. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

59%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,167 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FUND ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $360,167 in grants to WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
DUNHAM FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY 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 15 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