Connecticut · Nonprofit
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,269,041 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($411,835). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $343k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $540k
What Bridgeport Public Education Fund Inc does
Mission
To increase involvement of the greater bridgeport community in the bridgeport public school system; to organize and solicit financial and other support for the bridgeport public school system; to act as a catalyst for the development of new programs and new approaches to teaching and learning for the bridgeport public school system; to encourage bridgeport educators to be creative, innovative, and effective, and to recognize them for such achievements; to strengthen parental involvement in their children's educational process; to strengthen communication between educational, civic, and business constituencies and to increase public awareness of excellence within the bridgeport public school system as well as the challenges faced by urban education and their place in the greater bridgeport community; to bring information to the greater bridgeport community regarding current educational thought in the united states and to promote change in the bridgeport schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mentoring for academic achievement and college success- is a college access program that pairs high school students with college student mentors. The university of bridgeport, and sacred heart university. Students who are in maacs for at least two years and attend the college readiness workshop in their senior year are then enrolled in the college assistance program (cap) which will give them support: financial, academic,and emotional, all through college.
$183,220 spentof which $3,100 as grants82% of program spendingEnrichment programs- first day - a reading enrichment program that encourages reading skills by giving each first grade student a new book on the first day of school, and introduces hundreds of volunteers to bridgeport classrooms. All first grade students in the bridgeport public schools, new beginnings charter school, the 2 regional magnet schools participate in first day. Community engagement: education forums to bring information to our community and facilitate community conversations to enable our community to discuss issues, develop solutions, and implement their ideas. Inspiration event: an annual event to recognize and reward excellent educators in the bridgeport public schools.
$41,290 spentof which $15,750 as grants18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,510.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $503k to $620k (+23%).
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Faith Villegas
Executive director/secretary
Board chair
Eileen Lopez-Cordone
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $123k → $123k.
4 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND 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
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% 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 BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 30% · 2022 22% · 2023 48% — 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
44% of BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $468k 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.
Against its field
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,127 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,127 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $79k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$79k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC?
- BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,269,041 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($411,835). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,269,041 in grants to BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $411,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND 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 30 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