· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST AURORA DISTRICT 131 | $20,000 |
| WEST AURORA DISTRICT 129 | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $706k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- QCQUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $657k · revenue +262%
AURORA UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2023 · $152k · revenue +44%- AAAURORA AREA AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN OF UNITY2× · 2019–2020 · $49k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN AME CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $15k
- FVFox Valley Park Districtone grant, 2023 · $14k
- NINorthern Illinois Universityone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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