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The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy
The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $376k
What The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy does
Mission
The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy (the Corporation) is operated exclusively for charitable purposes, for the benefit of the citizens of the Town of Colchester, Connecticut, including the promotion of education and the support of the Bacon Academy, Colchester's high school, lessening the burdens of government, and supporting the preservation of historic buildings.The Corporation operates an educational scholarship and award program (the scholarship and award program) through which the Corporation provides educational scholarship and educational awards to students of Bacon Academy. The scholarship and award program is administered by members of the Corporations Board of Trustees with input from members of Bacon Academys Guidance Department. The scholarship and award program furthers the Corporations charitable purposes by promoting education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Corporation operates a below cost services program through which it owns real property and and provides real property to governmental entities, tax-exempt organizations and unincorporated community organizations at no cost or at substantially less than the Corporation's cost to own and maintain such real property. Engaging in this activity furthers the Corporation's charitable purposes because providing such services to such organizations is a charitable activity. See Revenue Ruling 71-529, 1971-2 C.B. 127.
$32,699 spent$12,061 earned by the program93% of program spendingEducational Awards and Scholarships - $2,400.Each year, through the scholarship and award program, the Corporation provides various educational awards to students of Bacon Academy, which is Colchester's high school. The seven awards are as follows:1. Bacon Academy Senior Math Award plaque awarded to a senior for excellence in mathematics.2. Otis Prize - Female - Awarded to the senior with the highest grade in social studies.3. Otis Prize - Male - Awarded to the senior with the highest grade in social studies4. Bacon Academy Foreign Language Award - Plaque awarded to a senior who has shown the greatest proficiency in French.5. Bacon Academy Foreign Language Award Plaque awarded to a senior who has shown the greatest proficiency in Spanish/6. Stanley Weich Athletic Prize Female - Plaque awarded for general excellence in athletics.7. Stanley Weich Athletic Prize - Male - Plaque awarded for general excellence in athletics.The five scholarships are as follows:8. Gilbert Lamb Essay - Best senior essay on appreciation of our own community.9. Pierpoint Bacon Memorial Prize awarded to a senior who best exemplifies service to school and community.10. Adam Piekarz Scholarship awarded to a…
$2,400 spentof which $2,400 as grants7% of program spendingCapitalized the cost of a bronze plaque to acknowledge the contribution of slaves toward the establishment of Bacon Academy.
$2,400 spent7% of program spendingo Bacon 300 Celebration - Pierpoint Bacon's 300th Birthday with open house and refreshments at building o Sponsorship of Historic Social Event, which included gathering of various community organizations to inform of BABOT vision and solicit financial support o Conduct annual Founder's Day Program (honors Pierpoint and Abigail Bacon's legacy gift that established a "school of higher learning and to recognize graduates who have gone on to distinguish themselves in their areas of expertise)o Sponsorship of Community Pollinator Evento Sponsorship of Indoor Pop-up Marketo Conduct Holiday Plant Saleo Participation in Community Yard Saleo Participation in Farmer's Marketso Maintain public relations via newspaper articles, website and Facebook Pageo Board attendance at Senior Awards Night in conjunction with scholarships and awards provided by Trusteeso Board attendance at Bacon Academy Graduation Ceremony
Less: cost of plaque that is capitalized.
$-2,400 spent-7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,099.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $408k to $339k (−17%).
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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Andrew Norton
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy’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
The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
100% 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 Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy.
“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
75% of The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
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 Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy?
- The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy.
- Who is the largest funder of The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Trustees and Proprietors of Bacon Academy 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 2020–2024), 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