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AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC

AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,353,881 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($726,775). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.4M
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 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· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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

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 · 12,312 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
02Who 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 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)69% 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 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70% 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.

54%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
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; 60% 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

69% 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 $416k that is directly attributable, 98% 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 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & 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 policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: 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.

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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 AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,353,881 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($726,775). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% 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 10 organizations giving $1,353,881 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 10funders 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