Connecticut · Nonprofit
CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC
CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,994 to it, the largest being SQUIER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($442,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $842k
What Crossing Thresholds Inc does
Mission
Since our incorporation in 2008, our work has been the following - we identify, empower, and employ local community leaders who have a mission to transform the lives of children in the kibera slum of nairobi, kenya. More specifically,we build schools where children can access nutrition, learning, health care,music, and dance. To support our school-building projects, we lead volunteer trips to stretch the boundaries of cross-cultural learning and service. These trips are designed both to encourage global citizenship and to build long-term support for our programs/projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We have our five primary schools that crossing thresholds supports: 1) fafu-facing the future, which feeds and educates 390 students, 2)garden of hope which feeds and educates 475 students, 3)drug fighters orphanage/primary school which feeds and educates 325 students and serves as a permanent residence for 50 orphans, 4)center of hope which feeds and educates 165 students, 5) community pillars, which feeds and educates 225 students. In 2023 we worked on building the new center of hope school, and we implemented structural improvements to satisfy the ministry of education requirements, and we answered the call of several emergencies due to fires and floods.
$726,000 spent88% of program spendingIn 2023 we ran 2 trips to kenya. We brought 58 volunteers to kibera, to work on the new center of hope, and experience firsthand how crossing thresholds is changing lives through providing education to the poorest of the poor.
$102,000 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $828,000.
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 2021 to 2022, from $591k to $724k (+22%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Faith Pedowitz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $33k → $261k.
14 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
36% 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 CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 26% · 2019 38% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 34% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“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
44% of CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $656k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CROSSING THRESHOLDS 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC?
- CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,994 to it, the largest being SQUIER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($442,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $1,986,994 in grants to CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC?
- SQUIER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $442,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CROSSING THRESHOLDS 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 46 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