Illinois · Nonprofit
AURORA DOWNTOWN
AURORA DOWNTOWN (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $47,577 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ($47,577). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $0
What Aurora Downtown does
Mission
The mission of Aurora Downtown is to do all things necessary to relieve poverty and combat community deterioration by improving, redeveloping, aiding and assisting business enterprises and persons within the geographic boundaries described by city of aurora ordinance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provides seasonal decorations for downtown aurora streetscape to enhance positive image of downtown aurora.
$38,146 spent38% of program spendingPromotes economic development in downtown aurora and coordinates development with city of aurora in planning and implementation of long range plans.
$62,781 spentof which $48,229 as grants62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,927.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $212k to $99k (−53%).
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 97% · 2018 93% · 2019 94% · 2020 75% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 AURORA DOWNTOWN’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.
Where its funders are
100% of AURORA DOWNTOWN'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like AURORA DOWNTOWN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AURORA DOWNTOWN: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds AURORA DOWNTOWN?
- AURORA DOWNTOWN (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $47,577 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ($47,577). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AURORA DOWNTOWN have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $47,577 in grants to AURORA DOWNTOWN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AURORA DOWNTOWN?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $47,577 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AURORA DOWNTOWN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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