Connecticut · Nonprofit
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,420,027 to it, the largest being THE FRANK DIMINO FOUNDATION INC ($325,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $-311698
What Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc does
Mission
Neighborhood Studios transforms the lives of Bridgeport children through arts education and empowers them to make a difference in their community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lighthouse: NSFC works in collaboration with the Lighthouse program, an innovative school/ community effort in the City of Bridgeport, CT to provide arts enrichment in dance/ creative movement, art theater, steel drumming and chorus instruction in after school classes.
$955,527 spent$1,040,788 earned by the program74% of program spendingConservatory: The Conservatory program is for teens who are serious about the visual arts, media, music, theater and dance. Open to youths ages 13-18 in Bridgeport, CT and surrounding towns, the program provides intermediate and advanced instruction for various art disciplines.
$55,788 spent$55,613 earned by the program4% of program spendingCamp Hart - This is a summer program for children with special needs providing activities in art, music, dance, theater and recreational activities.
$47,930 spent$63,217 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services represent various music, art, theater and dance instructional programs provided to children in the communities we serve.
$226,773 spent$163,331 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,286,018.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $374k to $320k (−14%).
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: 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Frank Derico
Executive Director
Board chair
Karla Mpanga
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $118k → $247k.
10 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 17% · 2021 27% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% — 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
52% of Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $604k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $352k on record — $220k federal, $132k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$220k
- State Aid Grants$73k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$54k
- Voc. Training-Blind Persons$4k
- Client Services-General$1k
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 Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County 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
Public support
78%
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 Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County 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 Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc?
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,420,027 to it, the largest being THE FRANK DIMINO FOUNDATION INC ($325,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $1,420,027 in grants to Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc?
- THE FRANK DIMINO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 46 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