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Advancing Connecticut Together Inc

To addresses the root causes of poverty, addiction and health inequities through strength-based services and advocacy to ensure all people in connecticut have equitable resources necessary tp achieve multi- generational health, wealth and happiness.

$503k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $419,817 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $502,916 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,099 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$22,224
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEER YOUTH PROGRAM OF CONNECTICUT$56,819
APNH A PLACE TO NOURISH YOUR$53,000
NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER$47,479
TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER$40,000
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH$34,700
ANCHOR HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP$26,238
NATIONAL WORKING POSITIVE COALITION$25,882
LOVE 146 INC$24,750
THE ROWAN CENTER INC$22,224
FIRST CHOICE HEALTH CENTERS INC$15,000
CAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCIL$10,000
REGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR$10,000
MERCY HOUSING AND SHELTER CORPORATI$10,000
CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF WESTERN$10,000
HARTFORD GAY MEN'S CHORUS INC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OUT CT INC: $7k → 9%NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER: $47k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective Inc

The hartford gay & lesbian health collective empowers individuals of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions to lead healthly lives through the provision of health and support services, education and advocacy.

2
Pride Center of Vermont Inc

Pride Center of Vermont educates, advocates and celebrates with and for LGBTQ+ Vermonters.

Human Services
3
Hudson Valley Lgbtq Community Center Inc

As a safe, supportive environment, the Hudson Valley LBGTQ Community Center provides services, professional resources, and programs that unite the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, and queer community across lines of age, race, gender,…

Human Services
4
The Lgbtq Center of Durham Inc

To create a community where all LGBTQ+ lived experiences are affirmed, supported, and celebrated.

Human Services
5
Gay City Health Project

Gay city: seattle's lgbtq center cultivates access and connections to promote self-determination, liberation and joy in our communities.

Arts & Culture
6
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
7
Rainbow Health Minnesota

To work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.

Health
8
Connecticut Counseling Centers Inc

To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.

9
True Colors Inc Sexual Minority Youth and Family Services of Ct

True colors mission is to improve the quality of life for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) youth. we work to create a world where youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities are valued and affirmed. we challenge all…

10
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
11
Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County

Provided services to ensure the physical, psychological and social well being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and hiv/aids affected community.

12
Out Film Ct Inc

To entertain, educate, and promote community through the exhibition of LGBTQ film.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Qplus Queer Youth Program of Connecticut. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH — $34,700 · OtherMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCHNATIONAL WORKING POSITIVE COALITION — $25,882 · OtherNATIONAL WORKING POSITIVE COALITIO…THE ROWAN CENTER INC — $22,224 · OtherTHE ROWAN CENTER INCCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF WESTERN — $10,000 · OtherCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF WESTERNMIDDLESEX COUNTY CHAMBER OF — $10,000 · OtherMIDDLESEX COUNTY CHAMBER OFCAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCIL — $10,000 · OtherCAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCILMERCY HOUSING AND SHELTER CORPORATI — $10,000 · OtherMERCY HOUSING AND SHELTER CORPORAT…WEST HARTFORD PRIDE INC — $6,525 · OtherAPNHA PLACE TO NOURISH YOUR HEALTH — $53,000 · HealthAPNHA PLACE TO NOURISH YO…ANCHOR HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP — $26,238 · HealthANCHOR HEALTH INITIATIVE …FIRST CHOICE HEALTH CENTERS INC — $15,000 · HealthFIRST CHOICE HEALTH CENTE…QPLUS QUEER YOUTH PROGRAM OF CONNECTICUT — $56,819 · Youth DevelopmentQPLUS QUEER YOU…NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $47,479 · Human ServicesNEW HAVEN GAY …OUT CT — $7,200 · Human ServicesOUT CTTRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsTRIANGLE C…LOVE146 INC — $24,750 · Crime & LegalREGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHARTFORD GAY MENS CHORUS INC — $10,000 · Education
Other$129,331Health$94,238Youth Development$56,819Human Services$54,679Recreation & Sports$40,000Crime & Legal$24,750Community Improvement$10,000Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetQPLUS QUEER YOUTH PROGRAM OF CONNECTICUT — $56,819 over 1y, 25% of budgetAPNHA PLACE TO NOURISH YOUR HEALTH — $53,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $47,479 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetANCHOR HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP — $26,238 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOVE146 INC — $24,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC — $22,224 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFIRST CHOICE HEALTH CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHARTFORD GAY MENS CHORUS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Leonard Litz FoundationCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leonard Litz Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Advancing Connecticut Together Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 24%
  • LOVE146 Inc49% of income from government
  • Apnha Place to Nourish Your Health24% of income from government
  • First Choice Health Centers Inc16% of income from government
  • Triangle Community Center Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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