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CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC

CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,252 to it, the largest being THE ECHLIN FOUNDATION ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$166k
Net assets
$1.8M
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Connecticut Childrens Museum Inc does

Mission

Early childhood education

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Participatory museum for children and adults. Daycare/nursery school mon-fri 7:30am - 5:30pm.

    $941,136 spent$648,121 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $941,136.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($798k) Expenses 100 ($888k) Net assets 100 ($524k)2018 Revenue 100 ($802k) Expenses 99 ($882k) Net assets 85 ($444k)2019 Revenue 99 ($793k) Expenses 98 ($873k) Net assets 69 ($363k)2020 Revenue 86 ($690k) Expenses 93 ($824k) Net assets 44 ($229k)2021 Revenue 144 ($1.2M) Expenses 102 ($905k) Net assets 90 ($474k)2022 Revenue 104 ($827k) Expenses 77 ($681k) Net assets 157 ($824k)2023 Revenue 230 ($1.8M) Expenses 93 ($825k) Net assets 350 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 134 ($1.1M) Expenses 122 ($1.1M) Net assets 347 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (122)Net assets (347)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $992k to $2.0M (+100%).

$848k
$791k
$701k
$635k
$857k
$992k
$2.0M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 64% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

35% of CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$90k
’17
−$80k
’18
−$81k
’19
−$134k
’20
$245k
’21
$146k
’22
$1.0M
’23
−$14k
’24
1.4
months of
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

Sabrina Silverstein

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed88888976
Joined·+0+1+0+0+2+0+1
No longer listed·0100122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $10k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM 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

CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

40% 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 CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC.

24%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 69% · 2019 36% · 2020 66% · 2021 65% · 2022 33% · 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.

How long its funders stay

29% of CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

66% of CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
CT
KY

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. $11k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record — $10k federal, $1.8M state.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k
State$1.8M
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Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.5M
  • Other Program Expenses$146k
  • Educational Services$112k
  • State Aid Grants$40k
  • Educational Supplies$27k
  • Fees & Exp-Educ-Blind Persons$1k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC?
CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,252 to it, the largest being THE ECHLIN FOUNDATION ($40,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $166,252 in grants to CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC?
THE ECHLIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM 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 12 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