Connecticut · Nonprofit
CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,311 to it, the largest being AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC ($327,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $446k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $605k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Charter Oak State College Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the charter oak state college foundation is to expand access to higher education by supporting charter oak state college students and programs through private philanthropy. The foundation provides scholarships, grants, degree completion assistance, and related support to reduce financial barriers, promote educational equity, and advance economic and career mobility. Through donor and endowment support, the foundation seeks to improve outcomes for students and graduates while strengthening the workforce and the communities served by the college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation awards scholarships and grants to approximately 150 students annually to reduce financial barriers to pursuing, continuing, and completing higher education. Support includes scholarships, technology assistance, degree completion awards, prior-learning assessment support, emergency financial assistance, and studentparent programming, including wit/piit initiatives. In addition, the foundation administers named endowment funds, held in perpetuity, that provide ongoing scholarships based on donor-defined criteria.
$252,399 spentof which $237,988 as grants61% of program spendingPathways
$96,270 spentof which $96,270 as grants23% of program spendingWomen in transition program (wit) - established in 2000 to break the cycle of poverty, the wit program is a proven formula that helps low-income single mothers earn a college degree with no to minimal debt. The program eliminates barriers such as, covers the cost of tuition, fees, and books; and provides the necessary technology and access. While the college platform addresses home front, childcare, and transportation challenges; plus offers academic support, tutoring, and coaching. The support and resources strategically remove hindrances, enabling students to focus on their studies and reach degree completion. The program awards assistance to approximately 35 women each academic year.
$67,417 spentof which $67,417 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $416,086.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $2.4M (−13%).
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: 2024 72% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Carol Hall
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $31k → $156k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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
CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 68% · 2022 53% · 2023 63% — 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
20% of CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
99% of CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k 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.
Government funding CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.3M
- Regular Postage$240
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 CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,311 to it, the largest being AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC ($327,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $605,311 in grants to CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $327,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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