Connecticut · Nonprofit
STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,682 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($228,478). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $915k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Sterling House Community Center Inc does
Mission
Sterling is a multi-service community center serving more than 10,000 youth, families, adults, and seniors each year with a variety of services that bring people together including: early childhood learning, youth development, summer camp, athletics, arts, enrichment programs, community service, food security support, and more. Sterling's mission is to create impactful and inclusive programs and services that engage and cultivate a thriving community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Athletics & games - sterling house athletics provides opportunities for youth to participate in sports and games to develop skills, physical development and coordination. The program also supports healthy social-emotional development through teamwork, sportsmanship, respect for yourself and others. In addition, the program provides volunteer opportunities for community members to step into coaching roles, as they give back to their community and lead the next generation of athletes in our town.
$483,002 spent$553,023 earned by the program24% of program spendingPreschool (youth development) - this department houses our accredited preschool, after school program and summer camp. For all of these programs, we encourage personal growth emotionally, intellectually and physically. Our youth learn about themselves, about sharing, cooperation and the skills needed to both lead and follow. Each program supports good learning habits and preparation for formal education in addition to a sense of the greater community and their place within it.
$525,297 spent$439,588 earned by the program26% of program spendingDay-camp - from 4 year olds through teenagers, our mission is to create a safe environment where campers can have fun and feel good about themselves while making new friends and discovering the world around them. It is a traditional outdoor camp with arts and crafts, swimming, playground time, and athletic activities encouraging physical activity and healthy development. The counselor-in-training and jr. Counselor programs also support leadership development in our high school aged youth.
$562,415 spent$466,044 earned by the program28% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$445,080 spent$65,402 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,015,794.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.4M to $7.2M (+13%).
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 52% · 2018 48% · 2019 23% · 2020 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 15% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY 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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Amanda Meeson
Executive director
Board chair
William Lesko
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $38k → $117k.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 44% · 2019 56% · 2020 34% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% — 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
47% of STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
85% of STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY 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. $359k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $916k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$775k
- Other Program Expenses$141k
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 STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- First Ecclesiastical Society of Stratford · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
- STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,682 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($228,478). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $914,682 in grants to STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $228,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY 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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing