Connecticut · Nonprofit
AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC
AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,914,736 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,125,200). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $999k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc does
Mission
The aurora women and girls foundation galvanizes resources to increase economic security, educational attainment, and leadership for women and girls in the greater hartford region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The aurora women and girls foundation currently focuses its grant making on greater hartford area women's college success programs. Aurora's goal through its grant making is to empower more women to complete their college education, therefore enabling them to better their lives and those of their families. Our aurora-funded college success programs give women, especially low-income, women of color, single mothers and first-generation college students the tools they need to navigate and pursue higher education. We have identified best practices for these programs, including one-on-one counseling and advising, mentoring and introducing women to role models, building self-advocacy skills, addressing basic needs such as childcare and transportation--and now during the pandemic, help navigating online learning, unemployment, and needs for food and rental assistance. Aurora prides itself in not just funding effective programs but also being a resource and partner to our grantees. Our toward equity report documents the 85% salary increase tied to attaining a bachelor's degree for women in connecticut, which suggests the powerful link between educational attainment and economic security…
$537,128 spentof which $463,491 as grants81% of program spendingAurora's research highlights the critical issues facing women and girls in the region. Beginning in 2019 and updated yearly, aurora partnered with other connecticut women's funds and connecticut data collaborative to create the women and girls data platform (wgdp), a cutting-edge tool to share information and equip nonprofits, government, and community members with information for the advancement of women and girls in connecticut. An online, interactive tool, the wgdp provides access to publicly available data specific to regional, city, and statewide levels that is aggregated for gender and race. The data compares trends across regions and the state and aids in better understanding of local needs. Data is featured by demographics, health and safety, education, economic security, and civic engagement. The collaboration on the wgdp meant that we had the team in place to respond quickly to the data needs of the pandemic. In january 2021, aurora published essential equity: women, covid-19 and rebuilding connecticut, a report that documented the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women of color. Aurora distributed and presented the report's information to the governor's…
$49,155 spent7% of program spendingAurora educates and engages women and men in the power of philanthropy that is targeted to programs that specifically address the needs of women and girls. We invite community members to join us building better communities where women and girls thrive. In spring of 2025, aurora's women's giving circle focused on the immigrant and refugee women. Funds raised went to help 4 organizations on-the-ground, providing legal clinics, court support, wraparound supports for individuals and families, food, and advocacy for equitable access. 70 women joined the giving circle and raised $40,000 that went 100% to the organizations identified as meeting the community need. Aurora's 100 men campaign culminated with a breakfast with hartford's mayor arulampalam, and 100 male community leaders participated in fundraising and effectively advocated for women and girls.
$78,795 spentof which $40,000 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $665,078.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $810k to $1.0M (+27%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Steadman
Executive director
Board chair
Amy Miller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $33k → $390k.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 58% · 2020 34% · 2021 54% · 2022 85% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
73% of AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS 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 $508k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 2,065 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,065 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- sponsorship$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC?
- AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,914,736 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,125,200). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,914,736 in grants to AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing