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ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC

ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,250 to it, the largest being KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$283k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$66k
Net assets
$0
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Essex Elementary School Foundationinc does

Mission

To support essex elementary school located in essex, connecticut

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide independent financial resources to enhance the educational opportunities at essex elementary school by supporting various educational projects and enrichment programs and other initiatives at the school.

    $9,638 spentof which $9,584 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,638.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($50k) Net assets 100 ($821k)2018 Revenue 74 ($69k) Expenses 101 ($51k) Net assets 105 ($859k)2019 Revenue 139 ($128k) Expenses 126 ($64k) Net assets 111 ($912k)2020 Revenue 104 ($96k) Expenses 121 ($61k) Net assets 115 ($943k)2021 Revenue 91 ($84k) Expenses 114 ($57k) Net assets 141 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 198 ($183k) Expenses 188 ($95k) Net assets 123 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 78 ($72k) Expenses 343 ($173k) Net assets 114 ($937k)2024 Revenue 305 ($283k) Expenses 24 ($12k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (305)Expenses (24)Net assets (0)

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 $937k to $0 (−100%).

$821k
$859k
$912k
$943k
$1.2M
$1.0M
$937k
$0
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’17
$18k
’18
$65k
’19
$35k
’20
$27k
’21
$88k
’22
−$101k
’23
$270k
’24
3.7
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.

Board chair

Chester W Kitchings Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1314141313131212
Joined·+2+0+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·1010120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC’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

ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% — 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.

Where its funders are

ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.

CT
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

38%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC?
ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,250 to it, the largest being KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $66,250 in grants to ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC?
KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC 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.

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 3 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