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MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,363 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($41,320). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$68k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$97k
Net assets
$79k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 95%
01What it does

What Milford Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

Milford Education Foundation (MEF) promotes excellence, innovation and creativity in education for the children of Milford, CT. The organization does so through both programming offered directly by the organization and through partnership programs with Milford Public School and other area organizations designed to support the students of Milford.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Robotics - The Milford Education Foundation (MEF) funds the Milford Robotics team, an extracurricular activity for high school students to learn to build, program, and compete in regional, national, and international robotics competitions. MEF provides funding for robot construction materials, registration fees, and travel expenses. All Milford high school students are invited to participate.

    $32,815 spent
    71% of program spending
  2. Paint Your Path is a Milford Education Foundation program run in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Milford and The Milford Arts Council where middle school students work under the guidance of professional artists to design and paint a personalized skateboard deck. In just four 1 1/2 hour sessions, students turn plain wooden boards into works of art.

    $2,799 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Milford Education Foundation provides teacher based classroom mini-grants to the Milford Public School system to benefit public school students.

    $10,832 spent
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,446.

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 ($14k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2024 Revenue 36 ($5k) Expenses 172 ($8k) Net assets 93 ($40k)2025 Revenue 349 ($50k) Expenses 645 ($30k) Net assets 138 ($60k)2026 Revenue 478 ($68k) Expenses 1031 ($48k) Net assets 184 ($79k)
2023202420252026
Revenue (478)Expenses (1031)Net assets (184)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 2025 to 2026, from $60k to $79k (+33%).

$43k
$40k
$60k
$79k
2023202420252026
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
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’23
−$3k
’24
$20k
’25
$20k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $13k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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

MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

93% 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 MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

42%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 98% · 2022 71% · 2023 92% — 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.

How long its funders stay

40% of MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

57% of MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $42k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states.

NH
NY
MA
CT
RI

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

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’20
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,015 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)68% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

Government funding MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24k on record.

State$24k
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Top programs
  • State Aid Grants$24k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,363 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($41,320). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $97,363 in grants to MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $41,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), and the filings of 10 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