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Connections Five Towns Inc

Connections Five Towns Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$143k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$51k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Connections Five Towns Inc does

Mission

To assist Jewish families in limiting their exposure to the harmful effects of modern technology, such as violence and pornography, by offering internet filtering for computers and smartphones, and educating adults and children with lectures and seminars.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Assisted Jewish families in limiting their exposure to the harmful effects of moderntechnology, such as violence and pornography, by offering internet filtering forcomputers and smartphones, and educating adults and children with lectures and seminars.

    $103,064 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,064.

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 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2018 Revenue 137 ($106k) Expenses 123 ($98k) Net assets 108 ($106k)2019 Revenue 111 ($86k) Expenses 129 ($103k) Net assets 91 ($89k)2020 Revenue 90 ($70k) Expenses 89 ($71k) Net assets 89 ($88k)2021 Revenue 38 ($30k) Expenses 144 ($115k) Net assets 2 ($2k)2022 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 81 ($65k) Net assets 15 ($15k)2023 Revenue 120 ($93k) Expenses 114 ($91k) Net assets 16 ($16k)2024 Revenue 185 ($143k) Expenses 135 ($108k) Net assets 52 ($51k)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (135)Net assets (52)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 2020 to 2021, from $88k to $3k (−97%).

$98k
$107k
$89k
$88k
$3k
$15k
$17k
$52k
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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

65% of Connections Five Towns Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$8k
’18
−$17k
’19
−$1k
’20
−$86k
’21
$12k
’22
$2k
’23
$35k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Connections Five Towns 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

Connections Five Towns Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Connections Five Towns Inc.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of Connections Five Towns 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Connections Five Towns Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

88%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Connections Five Towns 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 Connections Five Towns Inc?
Connections Five Towns Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Connections Five Towns Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to Connections Five Towns Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Connections Five Towns Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Connections Five Towns Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2 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