Illinois · Nonprofit
CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC
CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,293 to it, the largest being INC MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ($673,599). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Fox Valley United Wayshared funderslocal
- Communities in Schools of North Carolina Incportfolio match
- School Smart Kc Incportfolio 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.
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 94% · 2019 76% · 2020 70% · 2021 62% · 2022 75% · 2023 90% · 2024 93% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $117k → $94k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 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
CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 75% · 2019 67% · 2020 70% · 2021 88% · 2022 92% · 2023 92% — 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
63% of CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fox Valley United Wayshared funderslocalIL · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- Communities in Schools of North Carolina Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- School Smart Kc Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Communities in Schools of Georgiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mind Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rootedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- IOLA Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teachers Treasures Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Campaign for Great Public Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Denver Broncos Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Colorado Education Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyraportfolio 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 CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 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 CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC?
- CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,066,293 to it, the largest being INC MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ($673,599). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,066,293 in grants to CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC?
- INC MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $673,599 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 INC 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 8funders 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