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CJR FUND INC

CJR FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,290 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($71,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$155k
Grants received
$32M
Net assets
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 91 ($1.5M) Expenses 90 ($925k) Net assets 111 ($21M)2019 Revenue 45 ($747k) Expenses 159 ($1.6M) Net assets 110 ($21M)2020 Revenue 54 ($885k) Expenses 156 ($1.6M) Net assets 105 ($20M)2021 Revenue 71 ($1.2M) Expenses 66 ($675k) Net assets 141 ($26M)2022 Revenue 51 ($837k) Expenses 102 ($1.0M) Net assets 125 ($23M)2023 Revenue 117 ($1.9M) Expenses 90 ($921k) Net assets 138 ($26M)2024 Revenue 142 ($2.3M) Expenses 117 ($1.2M) Net assets 156 ($29M)2025 Revenue 137 ($2.3M) Expenses 173 ($1.8M) Net assets 170 ($32M)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (173)Net assets (170)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$621k
17
$575k
18
$884k
19
$714k
20
$492k
21
$205k
22
$1.0M
23
$1.1M
24
$478k
25
30
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% 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 CJR 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

CJR FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 CJR FUND INC.

46%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 90% · 2021 94% · 2022 98% · 2023 98%broadly stable.

“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

60% of CJR FUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $63k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states.

NY
CT
FL

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 100 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CJR FUND INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 20%Fundraising 18%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

63%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Connecticut Junior Republic Assoc · exempt
  • Buel Real Estate Inc · exempt
  • Mary Buel Memorial Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CJR FUND INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CJR FUND INC?
CJR FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,290 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($71,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CJR FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $155,290 in grants to CJR FUND INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CJR FUND INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $71,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CJR 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.

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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing