Connecticut · Nonprofit
Children's Adventure Center
Children's Adventure Center (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,858 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Children's Adventure Center does
Mission
The Childrens Adventure Center is a dynamic learning community dedicated to providing a superior early-learning educational experience in a warm, friendly atmosphere. We pursue our goal of excellence with a caring community of young learners, dedicated staff and supportive parents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide child development and educational programs for pre-school children through age 8 in both daycare and after school activities
$1,005,770 spent$876,064 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,005,770.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $258k to $419k (+62%).
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: 2018 42% · 2019 45% · 2020 31% · 2021 43% · 2022 32% · 2023 27% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Jane Gadbut
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $428.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Children's Adventure Center’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
Children's Adventure Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Children's Adventure Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of Children's Adventure Center's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Children's Adventure Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $740k on record.
- Educational Services$513k
- Other Program Expenses$212k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$15k
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 Children's Adventure Center
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Adventure Center: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Children's Adventure Center?
- Children's Adventure Center (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,858 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children's Adventure Center have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $25,858 in grants to Children's Adventure Center.
- Who is the largest funder of Children's Adventure Center?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children's Adventure Center 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing