Colorado · Nonprofit
AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL
AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,054 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $244k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $128k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Aurora Sister Cities International does
Mission
Aurora Sister Cities International's mission is to promote local and global partnerships centered on cultural, education and best practices exchange, cultivating a network of community ambassadors who champion peace and prosperity around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Korea Town Golf Tournament. Fundraising and networking event for Aurora's thriving Korean business community.
$25,102 spent$37,815 earned by the program61% of program spendingKorea Town Site Visit and Cultural Delegation to Fullerton, CA. Also other expenses for the Seongnam City working group.
$5,922 spent$335 earned by the program14% of program spendingChihuahua Working Group - cultural delegation to Chihuahua Mexico
$2,939 spent7% of program spendingOther Program Expenses. Travel expenses 6015, Luncheon for Nepalese delegation 946, Globalfest expenses 213
$7,174 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,137.
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.
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 $94k to $164k (+75%).
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: 2018 50% · 2019 34% · 2020 65% · 2021 51% · 2022 41% · 2023 42% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Jeanette Rodriguez
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $34.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL’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
AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.
Against its field
AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
28% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL: 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 SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL?
- AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,054 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $128,054 in grants to AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL?
- Wend II Inc is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AURORA SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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