· Private foundation
Juvenile Protective Association of Aurora Illinois
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AURORA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY | $22,500 |
| MUTUAL GROUND | $15,000 |
| AT RISK MENTORING | $10,000 |
| FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION | $7,000 |
| DVSA COMMUNITIES | $6,750 |
| HESED HOUSE | $6,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOX VALLEY MUSIC CONSORTIUM | $5,000 |
| ASSN FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVLEPOMENT | $5,000 |
| CASA KANE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB AURORA | $5,000 |
| MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS | $3,000 |
| SIMPLY DESTINEE | $3,000 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -88% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CKCASA KANE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +108%
- AAAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +9%
- MGMUTUAL GROUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- WAWEST AURORA SCHOOL DISTRICT 129one grant, 2019 · $54k
- FVFOX VALLEY GATORS YCFLone grant, 2022 · $3k
- EIECHO Incone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -88%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To strengthen families, communities and the organizations that serve them by providing quality personal and professional services that develop and promote the skills necessary to encourage growth and success.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
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The mission of domestic violence and sexual assault services is to support individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, and to lead the community toward ending these abuses of power.
Casa central drives change by empowering individuals and families to thrive - delivering impactful services that transform lives and uplift communities.
Supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
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Providing assistance to victims of domestic violence
Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry and the most unlike its peers is Echo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKING FREE INC ↗
- Who funds Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AT RISK MENTORING ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY MUSIC CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY DESTINEE ↗
- Who funds DVSA COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Fund · Dunham Foundation · Fox Valley United Way · Inc Mental Health Alliance · The Bersted Foundation · McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Carson Family Foundation · Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc · Nkc Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Juvenile Protective Association of Aurora Illinois funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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