Rock Valley Credit Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362659309
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Loves Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 815-282-0300
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Credit Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,398,265
- Expenses
- $11,830,953
- Assets
- $172,275,711
- Liabilities
- $152,701,698
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARLYNE KELLER (CEO)
- JODI APPELGREN (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
- MATT PAPOCCIA (VICE PRESIDENT OF LENDING)
Highest reported compensation
- DARLYNE KELLER (CEO): $267,424 total reported compensation
- MATT PAPOCCIA (VICE PRESIDENT OF LENDING): $176,024 total reported compensation
- JODI APPELGREN (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE): $173,990 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rock Valley Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial institution owned and operated by its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided checking service to 11,090 member accounts; provided savings services to 20,970 member accounts
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.56; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $267K · 14 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.