Connecticut · Nonprofit
Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc
Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,849 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD AND MARY LORD FOUNDATION ($50,488). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $319k
What Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc does
Mission
Preserve and Present the Colonial History of Norwich CT
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Membership by descent program is for members who are descendants of the 35 Norwich Founders. The descentents pay a fee for that membership The leaniage needs to be verified and a certificate is produced as confirmation.
$75 spent27% of program spendingThe Society of Founders of Norwich sells comemorative bricks to honor your loved ones, or pay homages to your own history while creating a permanent record of your support of the Leffingwell House Museum. Each brick will become a part of our walkway that leads to the entrance of the museum.
$115 spent42% of program spendingOrganize annual scarecrow garden to raise fund.Local businesses sponsor a scarecrow while displaying their advertizing message We also hold Haunted House Tours in the month of October during Halloween Holiday
$85 spent31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $275.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2025 to 2026, from $226k to $319k (+41%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $30k → $6k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Society of The Founders of Norwich CT 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
Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of Society of The Founders of Norwich CT 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. $31 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.
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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
100%
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 Society of The Founders of Norwich CT 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 Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc?
- Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,849 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD AND MARY LORD FOUNDATION ($50,488). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $86,849 in grants to Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc?
- THE EDWARD AND MARY LORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Society of The Founders of Norwich CT 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 7 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