Wisconsin · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
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.
- Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Incshared funderslocal
- The Jed Foundationportfolio match
- Jmj Foundationportfolio 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.
60% of AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- The Jed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jmj Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ccf-La Supporting Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zeringue Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anabi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marion G Jackson Char Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosswood Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Northrop Grumman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lindsay Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cfm Foundationportfolio 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 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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.
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