Connecticut · Nonprofit
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,380,184 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,548,500). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inclocal
- The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009portfolio match
- Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trustportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2021 7% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 54 funders, grant income fell $2.4M → $1.6M.
22 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 funders by total. 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
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 17% · 2019 30% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
54% of AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
50% of AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8.2M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 98 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Greater Hartford Arts Council InclocalCT · funds 76 organizations near you
- The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williams Charles F Scholarship Fd Pfdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Malone Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Antonio V Glassberg Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chase Collegiate School Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rudolph J Torello Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Education Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard & Jeanette Wood Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Asia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Avon Old Farms School Foundation · exempt
- The Riddle Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC?
- AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,380,184 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,548,500). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $16,380,184 in grants to AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,548,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 98funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing