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Connecticut Education Association Inc

The association promotes quality public education through advancing the teaching profession.

$424k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MMembership Benefit$28k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $255,054, the rows itemized in this filing. The $423,603 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,549 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOLLAND EDUCATION ASSN$59,244
CT STEM ACADEMY$40,000
BRIDGEPORT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$25,000
STAMFORD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$25,000
WATERBURY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$25,000
FAIRFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$25,000
WALLINGFORD EDUCATION ASSN$7,000
MILFORD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$7,000
HAMDEN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$7,000
DANBURY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$7,000
MANCHESTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$7,000
WESTPORT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$7,000
EAST HARTFORD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$7,000
GREENWICH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$6,810
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 18 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+68%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CE
    CONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +22% · 49% of their budget
  • CE
    CONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WTBY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +581%
  • CM
    CEA MANCHESTER EDUCATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CE
    CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue +68%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CT STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CE
    CONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
East Williston Teachers Association Scholarship Foundation
Education
2
Pta Connecticut Congress

Educational

—
3
Connetquot Teachers Association Inc

The connetquot teachers association aims to obtain bargaining rights, including the right to strike, for teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel employed by the board of education of the connetquot school district. the…

—
4
Ptsa Connecticut Congress

School pta

—
5
California Teachers Association

Contract negotiation for teachers

—
6
Thompson Education Association

The Organization represents about 650 Teachers & other Educational Professionals in the implementing, improving and coordinating programs of the profession.

—
7
California Federation of Teachers Disaster Relief Fund
Membership Benefit
8
Technology Association of Iowa Education Foundation
Community Improvement
9
Connecticut Education Association Inc

The association promotes quality public education through advancing the teaching profession.

Education
10
American Federation of Teachers

Teachers association

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11
Farmington Education Association

Labor Union

—
12
Fall River Educators' Association Inc

Serve as a collective bargaining unit for the fall river, massachusetts teachers.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Education Association; the most unlike its peers is Ct Stem Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $334,773 · OtherCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $227,552 · OtherCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WTBY: $225,695 · OtherCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WTBYFAIRFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $134,105 · OtherFAIRFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONCEA MANCHESTER EDUCATION: $86,308 · OtherGREENWICH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $71,636 · OtherMILFORD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $67,576 · OtherCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WESTPORT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $63,796 · OtherCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $59,244 · OtherNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION IN DANBURY: $56,755 · Other+11 more: $367,048 · Other+11 moreCT Stem Academy Inc: $80,000 · Education
Other$1,694,488Education$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $334,773 over 9y, 49% of budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $227,552 over 9y, 11% of budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WTBY: $225,695 over 9y, 14% of budgetCEA MANCHESTER EDUCATION: $86,308 over 9y, 23% of budgetCT Stem Academy Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetGREENWICH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $71,636 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetMILFORD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $67,576 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WESTPORT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $63,796 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION IN DANBURY: $56,755 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWEST HARTFORD EDUCATION ASSN INC: $56,293 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCEA EAST HARTFORD EDUCATION ASSOC: $56,000 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WALLINGFORD: $49,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $46,481 over 6y, 12% of budgetTRUMBULL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $42,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $37,954 over 5y, 11% of budgetCONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $30,600 over 1y, 18% of budgetCONNECTITUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $20,700 over 3y, 9.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Connecticut Education Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connecticut Education Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    12get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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