Connecticut · Nonprofit
RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC
RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,945,603 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($1,662,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Dalio Family Fund Incshared funders
- Pf & Rj Morganti Foundationportfolio match
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 8% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $162k → $500k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 41% · 2020 27% · 2021 61% · 2022 57% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dalio Family Fund Incshared fundersCT · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- Pf & Rj Morganti Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chase Collegiate School Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Asia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Antonio V Glassberg Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Papitto Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henkels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Collis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC?
- RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,945,603 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($1,662,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,945,603 in grants to RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC?
- ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP is the largest funder on record, with $1,662,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY 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.
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 31funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing