Connecticut · Nonprofit
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,991 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ($31,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $343k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Dr Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund does
Mission
Dr Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund is a nonprofit, nonstock corporation dedicated to developing and maintaining a coordinated network of community resources for young people and their families and broadening and deepening public awareness of and commitment to society's responsibility for responding to the needs of youth and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide scholarship assistance for higher education expenses to qualifying individuals.
$278,338 spentof which $256,117 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $278,338.
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 $1.9M to $2.3M (+24%).
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.
85% of DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $27k → $6k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 53% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.
Against its field
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$200k
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 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND: 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 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,991 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ($31,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $106,991 in grants to DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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