Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC
THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,232,547 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($17,789,877). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $94M
What The Frederick Gunn School Inc does
Mission
The frederick gunn school cultivates independent critical thinkers empowered to be a force for good. We educate highlanders to be ambitious citizens who are always learning and courageous in character like our founders frederick and abigail gunn.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The program service activities provided by the school are those associated with college preparatory institutions. These activities include providing students a secondary education, dormitory services and a school store.
$24,444,949 spentof which $5,912,933 as grants$25,004,954 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,444,949.
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 $96M to $113M (+18%).
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: 2021 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Patrick M Dorton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $4.8M.
16 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 67% · 2019 71% · 2020 27% · 2021 46% · 2022 87% · 2023 62% — 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
48% of THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
71% of THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8.6M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC?
- THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,232,547 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($17,789,877). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $29,232,547 in grants to THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $17,789,877 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL 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 62 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