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Aurora Health Care Foundation Inc

The foundation coordinates investments of philanthropic funds in the support of the programs and services of the affiliated organizations of aurora health care, inc.

$42M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$29M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$103MScience & Tech$11MEducation$2.0M
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+14 grants · $41M
$210,757
Median grant
2
States reached
$266M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AURORA HEALTH CARE METRO INC$28,920,589
AURORA HEALTH CARE SOUTHERN LAKES INC$3,519,493
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC$1,795,274
AURORA MEDICAL GROUP INC$1,114,742
AURORA RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC$1,078,667
AURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC$798,505
ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC$613,662
AURORA HEALTH CARE CENTRAL INC$595,936
AURORA PSYCHIATRIC HOSPTIAL INC$539,481
AURORA HEALTH CARE NORTH INC$403,459
AURORA RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC$336,485
AURORA HEALTH CARE METRO INC$326,624
KRADWELL SCHOOL INC$282,597
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC$275,193
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER OF OSHKOSH INC$210,757
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AURORA MEDICAL CENTER GRAFTON LLC: $176k → 6%AURORA HEALTH CARE SOUTHERN LAKES INC: $3.7M → 10%AURORA HEALTH CARE NORTH INC: $403k → 11%AURORA MEDICAL CENTER OF OSHKOSH INC: $211k → 11%AURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC: $275k → 12%AURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC: $799k → 17%ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC: $1.1M → 7%Aurora Medical Center Grafton LLC: $126k → 6%AURORA HEALTH CARE SOUTHERN LAKES INC: $3.5M → 10%AURORA HEALTH CARE NORTH INC: $262k → 11%AURORA MEDICAL CENTER OF OSHKOSH INC: $85k → 11%AURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC: $102k → 12%Aurora Family Service Inc: $745k → 17%ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC: $614k → 7%AURORA MEDICAL CENTER GRAFTON LLC: $105k → 6%AURORA HEALTH CARE SOUTHERN LAKES INC: $1.2M → 10%Aurora Health Care North Inc: $197k → 11%AURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC: $692k → 17%ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC: $169k → 7%Aurora Health Care Southern Lakes Inc: $466k → 10%AURORA HEALTH CARE NORTH INC: $150k → 11%AURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC: $659k → 17%ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $156k → 7%AURORA HEALTH CARE SOUTHERN LAKES INC: $408k → 10%AURORA HEALTH CARE NORTH INC: $101k → 11%AURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC: $602k → 17%ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC: $99k → 7%AURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $776k → 17%Aurora Health Care Inc: $626k → 17%AURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $621k → 17%AURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $453k → 17%AURORA PSYCHIATRIC HOSPTIAL INC: $1.1M → 17%AURORA PSYCHIATRIC HOSPTIAL INC: $573k → 17%AURORA PSYCHIATRIC HOSPTIAL INC: $539k → 17%KRADWELL SCHOOL INC: $499k → 17%KRADWELL SCHOOL INC: $283k → 17%AURORA PSYCHIATRIC HOSPTIAL INC: $247k → 17%Aurora Psychiatric Hosptial Inc: $178k → 17%WEST ALLIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $2.1M → 17%VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $1.8M → 17%Visiting Nurse Association of Wisconsin Inc: $1.8M → 17%VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $1.6M → 17%VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $1.6M → 17%VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $1.5M → 17%WEST ALLIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $199k → 17%West Allis Memorial Hospital Inc: $165k → 17%WEST ALLIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $85k → 17%WEST ALLIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $78k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116M · 18 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

$116M
$24k

Still filing today

28%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’23’24
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    AURORA HEALTH CARE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62M
  • AR
    Aurora Research Institute LLC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M
  • AH
    AURORA HEALTH CARE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.3M

Funded once

  • AH
    AURORA HEALTH CARE VENTURES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • AH
    AURORA HEALTH CARE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $61,505,954 · OtherAURORA HEALTH CARE INCAurora Research Institute LLC: $11,342,575 · OtherAurora Research Institute LLCAURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $9,300,818 · OtherAURORA HEALTH CARE INCAURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $8,235,752 · OtherAURORA HEALTH CARE INCAURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $4,214,214 · Other+10 more: $11,973,060 · Other+10 moreAURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC: $3,511,206 · HealthAURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $2,508,856 · HealthADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC: $1,933,809 · HealthAURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC: $439,624 · Health+1 more: $216,852 · HealthKRADWELL SCHOOL INC: $1,026,026 · Education
Other$106,572,373Health$8,610,347Education$1,026,026

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC: $3,511,206 over 8y, 28% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $2,508,856 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC: $1,933,809 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKRADWELL SCHOOL INC: $1,026,026 over 8y, 38% of budgetAURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC: $439,624 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP: $216,852 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AURORA FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds KRADWELL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater…Reach Out and Read IncAmerican Cancer Socie…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aurora Health Care Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aurora Health Care Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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