Connecticut · Nonprofit
JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC
JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being SELKOWITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($42,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $267k
What Jwv Community Scholarships Inc does
Mission
To recognize veterans and high school students for their service to the country and to the local community via annual grants and scholarships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To acknowledge veterans by way of an annual awards dinner and to acknowledge high school seniors for their service to the community by awarding scholarships to deserving students.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $228k to $310k (+36%).
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.
60% of JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS 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
JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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
84% of JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS 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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS 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 JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC?
- JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being SELKOWITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($42,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $65,500 in grants to JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC?
- SELKOWITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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