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AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC

AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,881 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($726,775). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$18M
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Aquinas Catholic Schools Foundation Inc does

Mission

To promote and ensure that high quality catholic education is made affordable and accessible to all in the la crosse deanery through aquinas catholic schools

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Cash transfers to aquinas catholic schools for operations. Provides support for students of aquinas catholic schools.

    $960,811 spentof which $960,811 as grants
    78% of program spending
  2. Cash transfers to aquinas catholic schools for faculty & students: scholarships & tuition assistance 210,344

  3. Support to aquinas catholic schools for marketing and recruitment activities

    $263,252 spentof which $229,060 as grants
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,224,063.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($481k) Net assets 100 ($5.2M)2018 Revenue 243 ($3.1M) Expenses 127 ($612k) Net assets 149 ($7.7M)2019 Revenue 132 ($1.7M) Expenses 116 ($559k) Net assets 169 ($8.8M)2020 Revenue 168 ($2.1M) Expenses 73 ($349k) Net assets 201 ($10M)2021 Revenue 125 ($1.6M) Expenses 177 ($852k) Net assets 257 ($13M)2022 Revenue 140 ($1.8M) Expenses 232 ($1.1M) Net assets 218 ($11M)2023 Revenue 172 ($2.2M) Expenses 167 ($803k) Net assets 252 ($13M)2024 Revenue 209 ($2.7M) Expenses 152 ($732k) Net assets 302 ($16M)2025 Revenue 269 ($3.4M) Expenses 290 ($1.4M) Net assets 355 ($18M)
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Revenue (269)Expenses (290)Net assets (355)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $13M (+28%).

$5.2M
$7.7M
$8.8M
$10M
$13M
$11M
$13M
$16M
$18M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

60% of AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$786k
’17
$2.5M
’18
$1.1M
’19
$1.8M
’20
$730k
’21
$652k
’22
$1.4M
’23
$1.9M
’24
$2.0M
’25
4.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed202020202122222222
Joined·+3+3+2+7+1+8+1+3
No longer listed·33260813
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $53k → $67k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’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

AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC.

46%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 52% · 2019 77% · 2020 71% · 2021 76% · 2022 43% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

60% of AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

59% of AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC'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 $656k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
NY
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $938k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

22
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,881 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($726,775). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,593,881 in grants to AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $726,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing