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KIWANIS CHARITIES OF ROCKFORD INC

EIN 36-6167609 ROCKFORD, IL

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Revenue 2024
$377,020
Expenses 2024
$185,177

Program services were 86.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S82Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 8472

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

To serve the children of the Rockford area through educational scholarship grants and grants to local 501(c)(3) organizations that assist children and their families through educational, leisure and social activities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Mission: The Kiwanis Charities of Rockford is a not-for-profit organization of service-minded volunteers guided by the objectives of Kiwanis International. Our purpose is to improve the quality of life for the youth we serve by fostering their health, academic success, character development and their dreams for the future. Our activities are educational scholarships and grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations that further our purpose.

  • Grants to other 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations

    Expenses $136,665 · Grants $136,665

  • Scholarships to high school seniors for freshman year college expenses

    Expenses $17,800 · Grants $17,800 · Revenue $13,800

  • Expenses related to programs run by Kiwanis Charities of Rockford members to introduce high school and middle school students to service to their community.

    Expenses $4,260

  • Direct support of children in programs of other 501(C)(3) entities in the Winnebago County community.

    Expenses $1,396

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Carl Palmgren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pam Clark-Redienbach

    Overseer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Shirley Davidson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.25 related

  • Carol Gerrond

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karin Alfors

    Director and Overseer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Janell Drolsum

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ann Russell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Buzzard

    Overseer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Lori Berkes-Nelson

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • MaryKay Garganera

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Steven Ellison

    President Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Jennifer Reisinger

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mary Price

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Darlene Riddle

    Asst Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

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
    $377,020
    Expenses
    $185,177
    Contributions
    $57,435
    Grants paid
    $154,465
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $194,511
    Expenses
    $255,736
    Contributions
    $93,502
    Grants paid
    $213,921
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $153,516
    Expenses
    $195,672
    Contributions
    $67,750
    Grants paid
    $155,923

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
    $30,359
    Expenses
    $167,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,583,587

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,681
    Expenses
    $171,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,117,930

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $524,077
    Expenses
    $164,811
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,637,241

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.