Rockford Park District Foundation

Analysis

Rockford Park District Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Rockford, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Rockford Park District Foundation reported income of $4.7m and spending of $3.6m, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $4.7m (+190%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Rockford Park District Foundation sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chattahoochee Nature Center Inc ($4.7m), Pollinator Partnership ($4.7m) and Sustainable Fishery Advocates ($4.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. At year end it held assets of $15.3m against liabilities of $2.4m, net assets of $12.9m.