Illinois · Nonprofit
AAUW Nursery School
AAUW Nursery School (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,566 to it, the largest being THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($48,321). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
AAUW Nursery School receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake Countyshared funderslocal
- Episcopal Children's Services Incportfolio match
- Scholar Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 43% · 2019 36% · 2020 47% · 2021 57% · 2022 43% · 2023 39% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of AAUW Nursery School’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AAUW Nursery School’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AAUW Nursery School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AAUW Nursery School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
84% of AAUW Nursery School's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake Countyshared funderslocalIL · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you
- Episcopal Children's Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholar Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Coordinated Child Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Think Smallportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA Threadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Finance Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wildflower Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hiawatha Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Action for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AAUW Nursery School
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AAUW Nursery School: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AAUW Nursery School?
- AAUW Nursery School (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,566 to it, the largest being THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($48,321). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AAUW Nursery School have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $57,566 in grants to AAUW Nursery School, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AAUW Nursery School?
- THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AAUW Nursery School find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing