Connecticut · Nonprofit
Connecticut Explored Inc
Connecticut Explored Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,275 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($296,269). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $323k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $436k
- Net assets
- $167k
What Connecticut Explored Inc does
Mission
To educate the general public about the history and cultural heritage of the State of Connecticut and the role the State and its citizens have played as part of the American experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Connecticut Explored, Inc.Form 990-EZ, FYE 8/31/2025Part III, Program Service AccomplishmentsExplanation of program activities and accomplishmentsProgram Accomplishments FY 2024-2025 Four issues of Connecticut Explored, circulation 4800 per issue Volume 23, Number 1: Winter 2024-25: theme of history of food. Articles included Cezar Chavezs visit to Connecticut during the grape boycott; the Fairfield Museum and History Centers curated exhibit on favorite ethnic foods in Fairfield; a photo essay of art at Cos Cob that focused on food, and what Native people drank in the early colonial period. Volume 23, Number 2: Spring 2025: theme of literacy that included articles about educators such as Dr. Henry Barnard and Dr. Benjamin Foster, Jr; Harriet Beecher Stowe, literary activism, and writers on slavery. Volume 23, Number 3: Summer 2025: theme of celebrations. The lead article celebrated the historical contributions of Dr. Lorenzo Greene of Ansonia; Puerto Rican festivals; the 300th anniversary of the Congregational Church in Cheshire.Volume 23, Number 4: Fall 2025: theme of environmental history. Articles included a photo essay about plastic pollution by a Connecticut photographer;…
$225,012 spent$144,897 earned by the program100% of program spendingConnecticut Explored receives the benefit of substantial contributed services in producing the quarterly magazine, which are not reflected in the functional expenses reported in Form 990, Part IX.Many of the articles in the magazine are written and photographs reprinted with no compensation or minimal honoraria or rights fees, including the state historian who provides a quarterly column without compensation.
Less in-kind services not to be included in functional expenses on Form 990, Part IX.0
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,012.
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.
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 $346k to $220k (−36%).
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 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of Connecticut Explored Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $19k → $241k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Explored 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 Explored Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Explored Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 61% · 2019 72% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 75% · 2023 94% — 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
14% of Connecticut Explored 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
97% of Connecticut Explored 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. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Connecticut Explored Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Connecticut Explored Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $126k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$73k
- Advertising and Marketing$53k
- Publications And Music$116
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 Connecticut Explored 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 Connecticut Explored 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Connecticut Explored Inc?
- Connecticut Explored Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,275 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($296,269). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connecticut Explored Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $436,275 in grants to Connecticut Explored Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecticut Explored Inc?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $296,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecticut Explored 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 8 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