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BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC

BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,710 to it, the largest being SEGAL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($351,115). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$365k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$698k
Net assets
$1000k
12/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Beads for Education Inc does

Mission

To provide education opportunities to low-income women in kenya, not otherwise available to them.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships-the organization pays school and boarding fees for primary, secondary and college level kenyan students based on financial need and/or academic merit. High school graduates intern with the program for 1 year, teaching elementary students from the local communities. After completion of the internship they qualify for college scholarship.

    $53,254 spent
    16% of program spending
  2. High school tuition and development-the high school tuition and development programs were established to improve the quality of education for students from the isinya, amboseli, and masai mara regions of kenya by providing educational supplies, teaching materials and teacher training.

    $287,692 spent$209,555 earned by the program
    84% of program spending
  3. Education and awareness programs-the organization provides workshops and other programs for the scholarship recipients and their communities. These workshops vary from year to year and have included such topics as hiv/aids prevention, female circumcision, teacher training, and town clean-up initiatives.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $340,946.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($367k) Expenses 100 ($369k) Net assets 100 ($741k)2018 Revenue 98 ($359k) Expenses 102 ($378k) Net assets 98 ($725k)2019 Revenue 107 ($391k) Expenses 102 ($377k) Net assets 100 ($739k)2020 Revenue 86 ($314k) Expenses 87 ($321k) Net assets 98 ($726k)2021 Revenue 90 ($330k) Expenses 98 ($363k) Net assets 93 ($693k)2022 Revenue 140 ($512k) Expenses 106 ($393k) Net assets 110 ($812k)2023 Revenue 146 ($535k) Expenses 84 ($310k) Net assets 140 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 100 ($365k) Expenses 109 ($402k) Net assets 135 ($1000k)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (109)Net assets (135)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $825k to $1.1M (+27%).

$741k
$725k
$747k
$734k
$702k
$825k
$1.1M
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$19k
’18
$14k
’19
−$7k
’20
−$33k
’21
$119k
’22
$224k
’23
−$37k
’24
4.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1111111111121212
Joined·+2+0+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·2000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $84k → $128k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

31% 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 BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC.

50%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 59% · 2019 75% · 2020 74% · 2021 73% · 2022 77% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.

“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

58% of BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 7 states in all.

WA
NY
NJ
CA
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC?
BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,710 to it, the largest being SEGAL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($351,115). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $697,710 in grants to BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC?
SEGAL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $351,115 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEADS FOR EDUCATION 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing