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NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION

NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,000 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.7M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
$6.5M
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Northeast Connecticut Education Foundation does

Mission

To provide scholarships and other financial support to residents of northeast connecticut who want to pursue higher education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support to students attending college in the form of scholarships, financial aid block grant and emergency funds of students and the college. In addition, the foundation provided the college funds for financial aid to students running of programs and the purchase of books and student support items.

    $348,058 spentof which $274,957 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $348,058.

02The organization over time
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 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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

NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
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

NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.

CT
KY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k 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

NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $46k to it.

Operating margin95% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,000 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $46,000 in grants to NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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