The Aurora Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237044641
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9417484100
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-11,220
- Expenses
- $9,911
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
The Aurora Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: Bradenton, FL. EIN 237044641. Tax year 2025 Form 990-PF reports $-11.2K revenue and $9.9K expenses.
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 3 grants totaling $6,000. The stated grant purposes included mission italyministry support, memorial giftsin memory of dan madison, and ministry support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 61
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 61
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 61; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Fail
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 18.93; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 61th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Grants to organizations not reported.