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KENT NEWS INC

KENT NEWS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,179 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($47,179). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$54k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$37k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Kent News Inc does

Mission

PrintPublish - ArtsCultureHumanities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide a nonpartisan, nonprofit news & information source committed to building community and enhancing the lives of residents, businesses & organizations of the town of Kent.

    $39,352 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,352.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2024 Revenue 214 ($54k) Expenses 975 ($39k) Net assets 164 ($37k)
20232024
Revenue (214)Expenses (975)Net assets (164)Peer revenue range

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 $23k to $37k (+64%).

$23k
$37k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of KENT NEWS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,855 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’23
$14k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 KENT NEWS 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

KENT NEWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 KENT NEWS INC.

47%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

KENT NEWS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.

CA
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k 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

Against its field

KENT NEWS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,575 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)114% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,575 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like KENT NEWS 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

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENT NEWS 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 KENT NEWS INC?
KENT NEWS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,179 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($47,179). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENT NEWS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $100,179 in grants to KENT NEWS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENT NEWS INC?
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENT NEWS 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing