Connecticut · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC
FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Friends of Gillette Castle State Park Inc does
Mission
Education about writer and actor william gillette and his legacy and castle
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supported a vibrant community Holiday program - enhancing the experience for visitors inside the Castle and creating a special experience for the many people who only visited the grounds. We decorated the interior and exterior for the holidays - 12 days of effort involving 10 partner organizations and a total of 110 volunteers. We organized numerous free activities on the grounds. Volunteers set up and ran a cider station where we distributed 2784 cups of hot cider and 1,400 s'mores to families in our cozy cider station. We had free live music in the Visitor Center and grounds on three days of the program.
$8,474 spent71% of program spendingResoration and installation of Gillette's steam train, coal tender and numerous passenger cars. Volunteers worked almost 900 hours, saving us considerable money.
$3,519 spent29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,993.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $57k to $89k (+56%).
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.
87% of FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK 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
FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
“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
FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK 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.
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 FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC?
- FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,500 in grants to FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK INC?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF GILLETTE CASTLE STATE PARK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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