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SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC

SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $580 to it, the largest being Salice Family Foundation ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$94k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$580
Net assets
$-14785
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Syds Book Shack & Boutique Inc does

Mission

To raise funding and awareness to help non-verbal people access talkers (typically a tablet with a speech program) in order to find their "voice"/communicate through assistive technology. Our mission also includes giving people of all abilities work experience in a supported environment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Purchase of talkers to benefit non verbal special needs individuals.

    $98,043 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,043.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2022 Revenue 252 ($64k) Expenses 311 ($73k) Net assets -46 ($-2656)2023 Revenue 340 ($87k) Expenses 404 ($94k) Net assets -179 ($-10257)2024 Revenue 370 ($94k) Expenses 424 ($99k) Net assets -258 ($-14785)
2021202220232024
Revenue (370)Expenses (424)Net assets (-258)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6k to $1k (−76%).

$6k
$1k
$2k
$901
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’21
−$8k
’22
−$8k
’23
−$5k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $47 → $33.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE 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

SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

CT

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE 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 SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC?
SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $580 to it, the largest being Salice Family Foundation ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $580 in grants to SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE INC?
Salice Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SYDS BOOK SHACK & BOUTIQUE 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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