Connecticut · Nonprofit
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $819,781 to it, the largest being Nancy and Andrew Wood Charitable Foundation ($435,796). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $820k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Marvelwood School Inc does
Mission
Marvelwood's mission is to provide the path that leads to personal growth and academic success for young people willing to get involved in their own education and committed to the challenge of preparing for college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Marvelwood provide secondary school education to approximately 100, primarily boarding, students. Nonacademic programs include weekly community service, visual and performing arts electives and interscholastic and noncompetitive sports. The school provides a structured, supportive and challenging environment for college preparatory education.
$8,380,964 spentof which $1,399,591 as grants$8,557,982 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,380,964.
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 $18M to $19M (+9%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 12% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $33k → $139k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MARVELWOOD SCHOOL 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
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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 30% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 80% · 2022 74% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MARVELWOOD SCHOOL 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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARVELWOOD SCHOOL 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 MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC?
- MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $819,781 to it, the largest being Nancy and Andrew Wood Charitable Foundation ($435,796). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $819,781 in grants to MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC?
- Nancy and Andrew Wood Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $435,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARVELWOOD SCHOOL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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