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AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,048 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ($824,868). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$275k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$333k
5/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Aurora East Educational Foundation does

Mission

The AEEF provides funds and resources for the enhancement and enrichment of the educational programs and activities of East Aurora School Distric 131. The AEEF attracts private funds and resources to support programs and services not funded with tax dollars.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fundraising activities as well as $125,000 received community foundation of the fox river valley.

    $0 spent$274,908 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  2. Grant and related expenses

    $104,136 spentof which $102,730 as grants$274,908 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,136.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($47k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2020 Revenue 107 ($50k) Expenses 86 ($46k) Net assets 119 ($24k)2021 Revenue 93 ($43k) Expenses 11 ($6k) Net assets 307 ($61k)2022 Revenue 176 ($83k) Expenses 113 ($61k) Net assets 413 ($82k)2023 Revenue 201 ($94k) Expenses 62 ($33k) Net assets 718 ($143k)2024 Revenue 308 ($145k) Expenses 195 ($106k) Net assets 915 ($182k)2026 Revenue 586 ($275k) Expenses 242 ($132k) Net assets 1670 ($333k)
2019202020212022202320242026
Revenue (586)Expenses (242)Net assets (1670)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 2022 to 2023, from $82k to $143k (+74%).

$20k
$24k
$61k
$82k
$143k
$182k
$333k
2019202020212022202320242026
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’19
$4k
’20
$37k
’21
$21k
’22
$61k
’23
$39k
’24
$143k
’26
30
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.

Board chair

Mark Michelini

Chairman

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $659k → $25k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

58% 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 AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

58%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 51% — 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.

Where its funders are

58% of AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION'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 $600k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
VA
TN

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

’17
’19
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $825k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 625 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin52% · top quartile
Months of reserve30.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 7%Fundraising 13%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,048 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ($824,868). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,425,048 in grants to AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $824,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AURORA EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 8 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