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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $822k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $0
What Cities in Schools Aurora 2000 Inc does
Mission
The mission of cities in schools is to support community and school partnerships that deliver necessary resources to students helping to empower their success in school and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Cities in schools aurora 2000, inc. Dissolved their organization as of june 13, 2025 and ceased all programs. An escrow remains post dissolution and year end to ensure remaining obligations are paid. Once all remaining obligations are paid, the organization intends to donate their remaining cash to fox valley park district foundation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Organization facilitates coordinated community resource delivery to children at school sites. An implementation partnership program is designed to encourage at-risk elementary, middle and high school students to remain in school. Agency staff work to link students to counselors and academic support so they can be successful at school. Over 5,000 students were served during the year.
$752,130 spentof which $40,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $752,130.
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 2020 to 2021, from $205k to $734k (+258%).
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
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
Faith Lashure
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 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.
Organizations like CITIES IN SCHOOLS AURORA 2000 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 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.
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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 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