Connecticut · Nonprofit
PRATT NATURE CENTER INC
PRATT NATURE CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,757 to it, the largest being THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($95,111). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $814k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $271k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Pratt Nature Center Inc does
Mission
The pratt center's mission is to stimulate a lifelong responsibility for, and joy in, the natural world. We encourage people to experience themselves as a part of nature, dependant upon the earth's resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Summer day program-consists of several sessions during the summer vacation period for children ages 4-12. Approximately 675 children participate. Day camp activities are nature oriented.
$401,723 spent$202,680 earned by the program69% of program spendingSchool programs-provide in-school presentations at student assemblies, classroom visits and field trips. Curriculum areas include life physical and earth sciences and early american history. Programs are tailored for needs of preschool, elementary, gifted, and talented and special education students. School vacation day programs are based on sciences and early american history
$8,751 spent$12,750 earned by the program2% of program spendingCommunity programs-include weekend and evening projects consisting of nature walks and related activities, workshops to develop outdoor skills and crafts. Also included is peter pratt nature school
$46,207 spent$61,012 earned by the program8% of program spendingPeter pratt nature school - this nature school draws upon the diversity of the natural world to foster curiosity, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, resilience and empathy to lay the foundation for the development of the cognitive, emotional, social and physical skills needed for success in a challenging and ever changing world.
$124,501 spent$222,959 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $581,182.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $2.3M (+22%).
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: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of PRATT NATURE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $42k → $19k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 PRATT NATURE CENTER 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
PRATT NATURE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 PRATT NATURE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 56% · 2021 61% · 2022 50% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
18% of PRATT NATURE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
96% of PRATT NATURE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k 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.
Against its field
PRATT NATURE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding PRATT NATURE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44k on record.
- Other Program Expenses$43k
- Conf/Seminars/Workshop-Hosting$200
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 PRATT NATURE CENTER 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRATT NATURE CENTER INC?
- PRATT NATURE CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,757 to it, the largest being THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($95,111). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRATT NATURE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $270,757 in grants to PRATT NATURE CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRATT NATURE CENTER INC?
- THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $95,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRATT NATURE CENTER 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 2017–2024), 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