COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION

EIN 36-2852334 GRAYSLAKE, IL

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Revenue 2024: $8,115,278
Expenses 2024: $6,235,407

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: B42
Classification: 2000
Street: 19351 W WASHINGTON ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Opening doors to educational opportunity for all of Lake County, Illinois.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The College of Lake County Foundation seeks to be Lake County's first choice educational foundation. Our philanthropic partnerships support the College's mission to deliver high quality, accessible learning opportunities, advance student success and strengthen the diverse Lake County communities it serves.

Payments to the College of Lake County, other organizations and students to be used for grants and scholarships applicable to student tuition and fees.

Expenses $6,118,174 · Grants $6,118,174
GRANTS TO AND ON BEHALF OF COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Kevin Appleton

Treasurer-ExOfficio

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Brandon Bennett

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Christine Lpez

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Christopher Piazzi

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Dave Galla

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Derek Leiter

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Dr Ali O Brien

Director - ExOfficio

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Dr Kristen Jones

Director - ExOfficio

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Dr Lori Suddick

Director - ExOfficio

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Elizabeth Kangas Miller

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Holly Kerr

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
J Kenneth Rosko

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Jannes E Zobus

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Joanna P Rolek

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Judith A Haga

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Julia Guiney

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Kathy Buscaglia

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Lincoln Abbey

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Lisa Dooley Trace

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Meg Largay

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Michael S Trimble

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Paul Diamond

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
R Lee Piekarz

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Robert R Worobow

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6
Sam Valenti

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.6

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$8,115,278

Expenses

$6,235,407

Contributions

$7,253,927

Grants paid

$6,118,174
2023

Revenue

$3,859,359

Expenses

$4,523,790

Contributions

$3,625,274

Grants paid

$4,387,043
2022

Revenue

$2,897,556

Expenses

$4,543,203

Contributions

$2,392,898

Grants paid

$4,495,798

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$8,115,278	$6,235,407	$7,253,927	$6,118,174
2023	$3,859,359	$4,523,790	$3,625,274	$4,387,043
2022	$2,897,556	$4,543,203	$2,392,898	$4,495,798

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$6,924,172

Expenses

$2,150,617

Assets (EOY)

$11,745,134
2020 · 990

Revenue

$3,909,219

Expenses

$1,295,414

Assets (EOY)

$8,518,989
2019 · 990

Revenue

$1,986,456

Expenses

$1,073,065

Assets (EOY)

$5,279,467
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,029,694

Expenses

$1,363,876

Assets (EOY)

$4,391,256
2017 · 990

Revenue

$1,667,554

Expenses

$1,319,440

Assets (EOY)

$4,648,105
2016 · 990

Revenue

$1,325,309

Expenses

$1,373,252

Assets (EOY)

$4,473,206
2015 · 990

Revenue

$1,455,403

Expenses

$986,812

Assets (EOY)

$4,353,284
2014 · 990

Revenue

$1,302,463

Expenses

$916,515

Assets (EOY)

$4,255,307
2013 · 990

Revenue

$881,805

Expenses

$613,757

Assets (EOY)

$3,714,681

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$6,924,172	$2,150,617	$11,745,134
2020	990	$3,909,219	$1,295,414	$8,518,989
2019	990	$1,986,456	$1,073,065	$5,279,467
2018	990	$1,029,694	$1,363,876	$4,391,256
2017	990	$1,667,554	$1,319,440	$4,648,105
2016	990	$1,325,309	$1,373,252	$4,473,206
2015	990	$1,455,403	$986,812	$4,353,284
2014	990	$1,302,463	$916,515	$4,255,307
2013	990	$881,805	$613,757	$3,714,681

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

College of Lake County

$6,094,309

2024 Grants and Scholarships
College of Lake County

$4,372,209

2022 Grants and scholarships
College of Lake County

$4,301,849

2023 Grants and Scholarships
College of Lake County

$0

2023 General support
College of Lake County

$0

2022 General support
College of Lake County

$0

2024 General support

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO

$500,250

2023 GRANTS FROM DONOR ADVISED FUNDS- OPERATING SUPPORT
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$500,000

2022 EDUCATION
RALPH J SMITH FOUNDATION INC

$250,000

2022 Fund student Scholarships
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$170,300

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$138,300

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
GREATER HORIZONS

$65,000

2024 Education
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$37,550

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

$30,000

2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$27,600

2024 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE

$21,792

2023 COMMUNITY EDUCATION

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.