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Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc

The mission of stepping stones museum for children is to broaden and enrich the educational opportunities for children ages ten and under and enhance their understanding of the world. The museum seeks to create an environment that inspires life-long learning and supports parents, caregivers and educators as facilitators of children's…

$33k
Granted FY2018
1
Grants FY2018
1
Organizations funded FY2018
100%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$33,207
Largest grant, FY2018
$33,207
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 100% of the organizations Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20181$33k100%
FY201715$122kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$75kCivil Rights$33kArts & Culture$15kRecreation & Sports$13kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Connecticut$40,3101n/a
Norwalk Acts Inc$33,2071n/a
Norwalk Public Schools$15,0001n/a
Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc$10,00010%
Achieve Enrichment Program LLC$5,0001n/a
South Norwalk Community Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Norwalk River Rowing Association$5,0001n/a
Math and Reading Advancement LLC$5,0001n/a
The New Canaan Country School Incorporated$5,00010%
Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc$5,00011%
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All grantees of Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Connecticut$40,3101n/a
Norwalk Acts Inc$33,2071n/a
Norwalk Public Schools$15,0001n/a
Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc$10,00010%
Achieve Enrichment Program LLC$5,0001n/a
South Norwalk Community Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Norwalk River Rowing Association$5,0001n/a
Math and Reading Advancement LLC$5,0001n/a
The New Canaan Country School Incorporated$5,00010%
Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc$5,00011%
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc$5,00010%
Norwalkstamford Grassroots Tennis & Education Inc$5,00011%
Family & Children's Agency Inc$5,00010%
Gibson Educational Consulting LLC$5,0001n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc$4,55610%
The Riverbrook Regional Young Men's Christian Association Inc$2,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Canaan Country School Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwalkstamford Grassroots Tennis & Education Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamily & Children's Agency Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,556 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Riverbrook Regional Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ritter Family Foundation · The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc

How much does Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc give?
Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc reported 1 grants totaling $33,207 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (48%), Civil Rights (21%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: University of Connecticut ($40k), Norwalk Acts Inc ($33k), Norwalk Public Schools ($15k).
Does Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Ritter Family Foundation, The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation.
Where is Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc based?
Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc is based in CT.

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 16 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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