Connecticut · Nonprofit
Riverfront Childrens Center Inc
Riverfront Childrens Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,944,399 to it, the largest being United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ($1,079,353). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Riverfront Childrens Center Inc does
Mission
Riverfront Children's Center provides affordable, high-quality early childhood education and family support services that enable parents to work and children to thrive. The center fosters lifelong learning and family stability through inclusive programming, developmental curricula aligned with the Connecticut Early Learning and Development Standards (CT ELDS), nutritious meals, and community partnerships that address barriers such as food insecurity and access to care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Early Learning Program: Delivered full-day, year-round early childhood education for approximately 70 children ages 3 months to 5 years, aligned with CT ELDS and Teaching Strategies curriculum. Improved school readiness, social-emotional growth, and family stability.Family Support & Food Pantry: Distributed approximately 25,000 lbs of food and household goods to families, removing financial stressors that interfere with consistent child care attendance.Community Partnerships & Scholarships: Collaborated with United Way, Chelsea Groton Bank, and Social Impact Partners to secure grants and scholarships ensuring access for low-income families.
$1,673,512 spent$631,880 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,673,512.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $2.9M (+24%).
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: 2017 48% · 2018 43% · 2019 47% · 2021 49% · 2022 45% · 2023 40% · 2024 44% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Riverfront Childrens Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $144k → $165k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Riverfront Childrens 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
Riverfront Childrens Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 Riverfront Childrens Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 91% · 2020 79% · 2021 73% · 2022 76% · 2023 66% — 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
75% of Riverfront Childrens Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
94% of Riverfront Childrens 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. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Riverfront Childrens Center Inc is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Riverfront Childrens Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Educational Services$3.3M
- Other Program Expenses$365k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$135k
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 Riverfront Childrens 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Riverfront Childrens Center 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Riverfront Childrens Center Inc?
- Riverfront Childrens Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,944,399 to it, the largest being United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ($1,079,353). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Riverfront Childrens Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,944,399 in grants to Riverfront Childrens Center Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Riverfront Childrens Center Inc?
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,079,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Riverfront Childrens 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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