Illinois · Public charity
Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc
The mission of cities in schools is to support community and school partnerships that deliver necessary resources to students helping to empower their success in school and life.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $57k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $53k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $412k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $475k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $255k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $111k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $92k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quad County Urban League Inc | $657,263 | 3 | 20% |
| Aurora University | $152,337 | 5 | 0% |
| West Aurora School District 129 | $80,751 | 4 | n/a |
| Aurora Area African American Men of Unity | $48,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Triple Threat Mentoring Inc | $32,841 | 2 | 2% |
| Fox Valley Music Consortium | $21,075 | 2 | 5% |
| Fox Valley Park District | $14,025 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Illinois University | $6,560 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($485k), not named here.
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 · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
About Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc
- How much does Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc give?
- Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc reported 2 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Community Improvement (44%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Quad County Urban League Inc ($657k), Aurora University ($152k), West Aurora School District 129 ($81k).
- Does Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc based?
- Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc is based in IL.
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