Illinois · Private foundation
Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation
To elevate and empower aurora-area women and future women by making grants to tax-exempt nonprofits engaged in meaningful, measurable work that helps women over the hurdles of inequity and exclusion, propelling them forward with life-changing programs and services. Its fy2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $226k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $226k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $273k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $241k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $276k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paramount Arts Centre | $175,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project | $150,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc | $137,500 | 2 | 1% |
| VNA Health Care | $109,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Business Development Center | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Imperfect Angels Organization | $77,950 | 2 | 70% |
| A Foundation for West Aurora Schools | $55,478 | 2 | 15% |
| Alive Center Nfp | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Family Focus | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Simply Destinee | $25,000 | 2 | 10% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paramount Arts Centre | $175,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project | $150,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc | $137,500 | 2 | 1% |
| VNA Health Care | $109,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Business Development Center | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Imperfect Angels Organization | $77,950 | 2 | 70% |
| A Foundation for West Aurora Schools | $55,478 | 2 | 15% |
| Alive Center Nfp | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Family Focus | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Simply Destinee | $25,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Dvsa Communities | $15,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Safe Families for Children Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Literacy DuPage | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois | $7,025 | 1 | 0% |
| Rush Copley Foundation | $6,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Fox Valley Music Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Helm Foundation Inc | $3,100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Fund · Dunham Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Fox Valley United Way · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation with peer funders
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About Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation
- How much does Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation give?
- Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $226,341 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Arts & Culture (17%), Employment (14%).
- Who are Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Paramount Arts Centre ($175k), Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project ($150k), Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc ($138k).
- Does Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, Dunham Fund, Dunham Foundation.
- Where is Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation based?
- Aurora Women's Empowerment Foundation is based in IL.
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