Connecticut · Nonprofit
CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC
CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,173 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($553,776). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Cardinal Shehan Center Inc does
Mission
To enrich lives through learning by enhancing the educational, social, and recreational opportunities for low and moderate income youth. To provide athletic, recreational, educational, and social activities to inner-city youth as a means of developing strong family values and self esteem.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer day camps conducted for approximately 1,022 bridgeport, ct area students. There was a decrease in camp attendance from the prior year. The number of camp scholarships offered to families was limited due to the decrease in camp grants received this year.
$333,672 spent$94,107 earned by the program22% of program spendingVarious basketball leagues conducted for approximately 534 bridgeport, ct area youth. We saw a decline in the number of children participating in bitty ball basketball program. The center will boost its marketing efforts to attract more children to participate and to search for funding to help families.
$349,224 spent$86,719 earned by the program23% of program spendingAfter school programs conducted for approximately 1,956 k-12 high school students from within the greater bridgeport area. Program activities include leadership, tutoring, arts and crafts, and various athletic activities (swimming, golf, basketball, tennis, job training, culinary arts). Program activities have increased in comparison to previous years due to serving more children and busing children from schools.
$705,264 spent$187,248 earned by the program46% of program spendingOther program services include school vacation camps and other extracurricular activities.
$144,791 spentof which $35,000 as grants$39,402 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,532,951.
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.
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 $7.5M to $8.9M (+19%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 0% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% · 2024 36% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Lorraine Gibbons
Executive director
Board chair
Most Rev Frank Caggiano
Member, chairman, president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell $412k → $308k.
7 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER 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
41% 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 CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 17% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 20% · 2023 13% — 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
56% of CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $584k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$582k
- Other Program Expenses$2k
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 CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC?
- CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,173 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($553,776). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,567,173 in grants to CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $553,776 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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