Connecticut · Nonprofit
Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center
Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,831 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ($5,731). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $700k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $491k
What Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center does
Mission
To provide children the time and opportunities to grow, explore, and discover. The programs promote the development of children as creative individuals and as members of small groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Daily activities and experiences are provided which enhance each child's sense of self-esteem and mastery skills. The goal is to provide a secure, safe and happy environment that fosters natural development of the whole child, which includes socio-emotional, cognitve, language and small and large motor skills. Due to a significant problem in the main house, all activities were closed on 02/2023. The building is undergoing major renovations that have not been completed yet.
$558,901 spent$686,661 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $558,901.
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.
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 $405k to $1.1M (+161%).
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: 2022 1% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $600.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center’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
Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
84% 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 Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
84% of Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Government funding Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $77k on record.
- Other Program Expenses$77k
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 Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center: 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 Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center?
- Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,831 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ($5,731). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,831 in grants to Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Old Lyme Childrens Learning Center 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 2 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