The Elburn Scholarship Fund appears to be a small, locally-focused philanthropic vehicle that made a single, concentrated transfer to the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley. The grant records indicate the fund was closed out and its remaining assets were moved to a community foundation rather than being distributed across programmatic grantees. This suggests the fund prioritized sustaining local philanthropic infrastructure and ensuring continued local impact through an established regional foundation.
Highly concentrated: all giving consists of a single large transfer (three recorded transactions) to one local community foundation, consistent with a fund close-out or consolidation rather than ongoing programmatic grants.
The Elburn Scholarship Fund’s 2024 grant records show a full wind-down: three large transfers and a smaller final payment went to the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley in Aurora to close out the account to new charitable use. That administrative end point sits alongside a longer pattern of education grants to students and local recipients in the Elburn area. The fund’s recent activity includes scholarships for Hannah E Dzielawa, Daniel R Pawlak, Claire E Lehman, and Katelyn Schultz, all in amounts that cluster around the fund’s typical scholarship range. The grants reflect a local, Illinois-centered scholarship vehicle rather than a broad national funder. In the years shown, the fund supported students in Elburn, Sugar Grove, and Maple Park, with award sizes commonly at $3,000 to $5,000. The presence of repeated awards to the same recipients, including Hannah E Dzielawa, Claire E Lehman, Katelyn Schultz, Andrew T Stover, Porter J Conroy, and Alexis R Nesci, indicates continued scholarship support before the account closure.
Education is the clear operating focus in the grant list. The Elburn Scholarship Fund gave $5,000 to Hannah E Dzielawa for education in 2024 and repeated that support in 2023, while Claire E Lehman also received $5,000 in 2024 after a $5,000 award in 2023. Katelyn Schultz received $4,000 in both 2023 and 2024 for education, and Andrew T Stover received $3,000 in 2024 after a $3,000 award in 2023. The records also show local educational support for students such as Kara Murphy, Lucas B Johnson, Sean Jee-shing, and Emilee Schultz. Outside scholarships, the largest 2024 entries were account-closure transfers to the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley in Aurora, showing an administrative use of grantmaking as the fund was wound down.
Typical awards were small and concentrated: the p25 grant size was $2,938, the median was $3,000, and the p75 was $5,000. The 2023 and 2024 records show repeated awards to several of the same individuals, which points to multi-year scholarship support rather than one-time gifts only. The fund appears to function as a scholarship vehicle with an eventual account closure, and the grant records also include final transfers tied to closing out the account to new charitable use. It is a local fund, and the data show no program-related investments.
$991K
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$13K
$1M
Most grants fall between $3K and $5K, with a median of $3K.
25th Percentile
$3K
Median
$3K
75th Percentile
$5K
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Notable grantees: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley
Grantmaking stayed entirely in Illinois, with 100% of grants reaching recipients in the HQ state. The strongest local concentration appears around Elburn, with recipients there including Hannah E Dzielawa, Daniel R Pawlak, Claire E Lehman, Kara Murphy, Alexis R Nesci, Porter J Conroy, Morgan Miller, Annika T Salchert, and Rocco Rosari. Other Illinois recipient communities include Sugar Grove, Maple Park, and Aurora. Aurora is the destination for the account-closure transfers to the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley.
Its grant list is dominated by education awards, especially scholarships to local individuals in Elburn and nearby Illinois communities. The records also include account-closure transfers to the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley in Aurora as the fund was being closed out.
Yes. Several individuals received awards in both 2023 and 2024, including Hannah E Dzielawa, Claire E Lehman, Katelyn Schultz, Andrew T Stover, Porter J Conroy, and Alexis R Nesci. That pattern suggests continuing scholarship support across multiple years.
The fund’s grant-size distribution is tightly clustered around small scholarship amounts: p25 is $2,938, median is $3,000, and p75 is $5,000. Many of the individual awards in the records fall at $3,000 or $5,000.
All recorded grants in the dataset went to recipients in Illinois, and the recipient locations include Elburn, Sugar Grove, Maple Park, and Aurora. The fund’s giving is therefore local and fully concentrated in its HQ state.
2024
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2024.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COMM FOUND OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY | AURORA, IL | $543,977 | 2024 | CLOSE OUT THIS ACCOUNT TO NEW CHARIT |
| COMM FOUND OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY | AURORA, IL | $264,249 | 2024 | CLOSE OUT THIS ACCOUNT TO NEW CHARIT |
| COMM FOUND OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY | AURORA, IL | $124,650 | 2024 | CLOSE OUT THIS ACCOUNT TO NEW CHARIT |
| COMM FOUND OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY | AURORA, IL | $8,960 | 2024 | CLOSE OUT THIS ACCOUNT TO NEW CHARIT |
| HANNAH E DZIELAWA | ELBURN, IL | $5,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| DANIEL R PAWLAK | ELBURN, IL | $5,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| CLAIRE E LEHMAN | ELBURN, IL | $5,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| KATELYN SCHULTZ | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $4,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| ALEXIS R NESCI | ELBURN, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| ROCCO ROSARI | ELBURN, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| KARA MURPHY | ELBURN, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| ANNIKA T SALCHERT | ELBURN, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| PORTER J CONROY | ELBURN, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| MORGAN MILLER | ELBURN, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| SEAN JEE-SHING | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| LUCAS B JOHNSON | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| EMILEE SCHULTZ | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| ANDREW T STOVER | MAPLE PARK, IL | $3,000 | 2024 | EDUCATION |
| RICHIES R TIV | ELBURN, IL | $7,500 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| HANNAH E DZIELAWA | ELBURN, IL | $5,000 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| CLAIRE E LEHMAN | ELBURN, IL | $5,000 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| BEN MANUGAS | ELBURN, IL | $4,250 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| KATELYN SCHULTZ | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $4,000 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| ANDREW T STOVER | MAPLE PARK, IL | $3,000 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| REAGAN A MALONEY | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $2,750 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| TRAVIS R JOHNSON | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $2,500 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| JAZMYN L SCHOLL | ELBURN, IL | $2,500 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| MARGARET M DUNCAN | MAPLE PARK, IL | $2,500 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| PORTER J CONROY | ELBURN, IL | $2,500 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| ALEXIS R NESCI | ELBURN, IL | $2,500 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| KARA MURPHY | ELBURN, IL | $2,000 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
| SEAN JEE-SHING | SUGAR GROVE, IL | $2,000 | 2023 | EDUCATION |
HANNAH E DZIELAWA
$5,000EDUCATION
DANIEL R PAWLAK
$5,000EDUCATION
CLAIRE E LEHMAN
$5,000EDUCATION
KATELYN SCHULTZ
$4,000EDUCATION
ALEXIS R NESCI
$3,000EDUCATION
ROCCO ROSARI
$3,000EDUCATION
KARA MURPHY
$3,000EDUCATION
ANNIKA T SALCHERT
$3,000EDUCATION
PORTER J CONROY
$3,000EDUCATION
MORGAN MILLER
$3,000EDUCATION
SEAN JEE-SHING
$3,000EDUCATION
LUCAS B JOHNSON
$3,000EDUCATION
EMILEE SCHULTZ
$3,000EDUCATION
ANDREW T STOVER
$3,000EDUCATION
RICHIES R TIV
$7,500EDUCATION
HANNAH E DZIELAWA
$5,000EDUCATION
CLAIRE E LEHMAN
$5,000EDUCATION
BEN MANUGAS
$4,250EDUCATION
KATELYN SCHULTZ
$4,000EDUCATION
ANDREW T STOVER
$3,000EDUCATION
REAGAN A MALONEY
$2,750EDUCATION
TRAVIS R JOHNSON
$2,500EDUCATION
JAZMYN L SCHOLL
$2,500EDUCATION
MARGARET M DUNCAN
$2,500EDUCATION
PORTER J CONROY
$2,500EDUCATION
ALEXIS R NESCI
$2,500EDUCATION
KARA MURPHY
$2,000EDUCATION
SEAN JEE-SHING
$2,000EDUCATION