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· Public charity

The Aurora Catholic Education Foundation

To furnish financial support for Catholic education provided by parishes, high schools, grade schools and other programs in the greater Aurora, Illinois area.

$110k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$672k
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $79,334, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,050 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,716 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
$12,678
Median grant
1
States reached
$899k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY ANGELS PARISH$21,939
ST RITA PARISH$18,799
St Pope John Paul II Academy$12,678
ANNUNCIATION PARISH$12,501
ST NICHOLAS PARISH$7,005
AUR CENTRAL CATH HS$6,412
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$746k · 8 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$746k
$5k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • HA
    HOLY ANGELS PARISH
    8× · 2019–2026 · $175k
  • SR
    ST RITA PARISH
    8× · 2019–2026 · $155k
  • SI
    SJP II CATHOLIC ACADEMY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $103k

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART PARISH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2026.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2019 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 9 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY ANGELS PARISH: $175,163 · OtherHOLY ANGELS PARISHST RITA PARISH: $154,552 · OtherST RITA PARISHSJP II CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $102,565 · OtherSJP II CATHOLIC ACADEMYANNUNCIATION: $74,550 · OtherANNUNCIATIONAUR CENTRAL CATH HS: $73,491 · OtherAUR CENTRAL CATH HSANNUNCIATION PARISH: $59,985 · OtherANNUNCIATION PARISHSt Pope John Paul II Academy: $55,397 · OtherSt Pope John Paul II AcademyST NICHOLAS PARISH: $50,646 · OtherST NICHOLAS PARISH+1 more: $5,020 · Other
Other$751,369

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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How do I get to The Aurora Catholic Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Aurora Catholic Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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