Connecticut · Nonprofit
NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,789 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($55,920). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $213k
What Norwalk Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
The norwalk education foundation's mission is to provide support for whole student learning experiences and enrich teaching practices. This is accomplished by collaborating with community partners to fund programs that enhance student learning, promote student well-being, and expand teacher resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Classroom grants for excellence - each year, nef awards grants for proposals in all subject areas that foster, among other criteria, overall value and creativity, collaborating among grades, classes and cultures, partnerships with parents and the community, meeting curriculum objectives, improving opportunity and achivement, a clearly defined evaluation process, long term sustainability, and replication potential for other schools.
$5,627 spent27% of program spendingExcellence in education awards - the excellence in education awards were launched during fiscal year 2017. The program recognizes teachers from norwalk public schools for their excellence throughout the school year.
$1,253 spent6% of program spendingStudent learning & well being - student learning & well-being focuses on the overall wellness of the students by providing activities focused on the mental health and fitness.
$1,885 spent9% of program spendingCollege readiness - college readiness programs help prepare norwalk public school students for college success through mentoring, sat preparation, college planning and assistance with college essay writting. Community outreach - this category includes other education advocacy costs and partnership programs.
$11,717 spent57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,482.
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 2021 to 2022, from $168k to $214k (+27%).
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.
100% of NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Barbara Cafero
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $6k → $351.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 98% · 2019 91% · 2020 65% · 2021 98% · 2022 74% · 2023 57% — 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
25% of NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of NORWALK 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 $27k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,789 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($55,920). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $91,789 in grants to NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORWALK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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