Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC
THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,453,097 to it, the largest being THE TANG FUND ($2,685,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $50M
What The Rectory School Inc does
Mission
To provide students, from early childhood through middle school, with an enriched and supportive academic, social and ethical community that addresses individual learning styles, aptitudes and needs while promoting personal self-worth and accountability. The school community lives the rectory school creed: responsibility, respect, honesty, and compassion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Horizons @ rectory- a new summer program to advance educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Provide co-educational services and support to approximately 260 students in kindergarten through grade 9 in an independent boarding and day school setting. The school also offers various co-educational boarding and day summer academic programs, including the new horizons @ rectory summer program.
$15,950,455 spentof which $2,537,475 as grants$16,977,624 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,950,455.
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 2021 to 2022, from $48M to $61M (+27%).
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 8% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Kevin T Lewis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $266k → $1.1M.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 RECTORY SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 RECTORY SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
28% 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 RECTORY SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 65% · 2019 32% · 2020 37% · 2021 78% · 2022 46% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of THE RECTORY SCHOOL 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
THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 RECTORY 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
Government funding THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116k on record.
- Other Program Expenses$91k
- State Aid Grants$25k
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 THE RECTORY 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC?
- THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,453,097 to it, the largest being THE TANG FUND ($2,685,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $11,453,097 in grants to THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC?
- THE TANG FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,685,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RECTORY 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 51 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