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Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$398k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$6.6MCommunity Improvement$2.7MEducation$942kCivil Rights$399kRecreation & Sports$399kEmployment$320kHealth$319kOther$5.6M
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $2,318,419 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,534,987 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $216,568 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $775k
$127,457
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC$397,930
NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC$377,201
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVE$219,296
HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA$215,688
THE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF W CT$206,986
THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY$180,702
THE ACCESS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$144,154
TEAM INC$127,457
ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT$107,500
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC$60,000
RHODE ISLAND COMM ACTION ASSOC$60,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE COMM ACTION ASSOC$60,000
MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC$60,000
MASSACHUSETTS COMM ACTION ASSOC$60,000
THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC$35,505
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MADONNA PLACE INC: $115k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $216k → 11%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY: $100k → 12%SE VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 14%MADONNA PLACE INC: $112k → 9%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $432k → 11%TRAINING EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: $130k → 12%SE VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 14%MADONNA PLACE INC: $56k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRIT: $211k → 11%TEAM INC: $127k → 12%SE VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 14%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $422k → 11%TRAINING EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: $125k → 12%SE VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 14%MADONNA PLACE INC: $37k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $194k → 11%TRAINING EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: $118k → 12%SE VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $59k → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 14%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $416k → 11%TEAM INC: $113k → 12%SE VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $40k → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $59k → 14%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $182k → 11%TRAINING EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: $102k → 12%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $40k → 14%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $398k → 11%TEAM INC: $79k → 12%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $172k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $398k → 11%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $169k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $367k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $50k → 11%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $144k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $269k → 11%GBAPP INC: $95k → 9%GBAPP INC: $92k → 9%GBAPP INC: $64k → 9%GBAPP INC: $45k → 9%NEW HAVEN FAMILY ALL: $112k → 12%NEW HAVEN FAMILY ALL: $86k → 12%NEW HAVEN FAMILY ALL: $56k → 12%NEW HAVEN FAMILY ALL: $36k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 20 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
5

Total granted

$17M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+26%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NO
    NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +37%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +49%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +77%
  • EA
    EASTERN AHEC PROPERTY CORPORATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue +26%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.

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2
Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Inc

Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.

Human Services
3
Community Action Commission of Belmont County

Community assistance

Human Services
4
Community Action Partnership of Central Illinois Inc

Agency provides community assistance to low income families and individuals including assistance with utility bills, home weatherization, emergency housing

Human Services
5
Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.

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6
Community Action Commission of Fayette County

Administers grants and contracts to help the lives of those individuals who fall below the poverty level.

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7
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

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8
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

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9
Western Connecticut Area Agency On Aging Inc

The western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…

Human Services
10
Community Action Partnership of Middle Alabama Inc

Providing low income individuals home energy assistance and providing emergency assitance as needed

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11
Community Action Board

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.

Employment
12
Community Action Agency Inc

To aid low income families with early education, energy assistance, nutrition help and other services.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madonna Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr19%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr19%41%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
1,898/19,041

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC — $2,702,163 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INCHUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INC — $1,288,875 · Human ServicesHUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INCTEAM INC — $795,187 · Human ServicesTEAM INCMAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION DBA MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $398,800 · Human ServicesMAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION DBA MAIN…SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $338,800 · Human ServicesMadonna Place Inc — $320,182 · Human ServicesGBAPP INC — $296,853 · Human ServicesURBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINC — $291,280 · Human Services+2 more — $150,000 · Human ServicesNEW OPPORTUNITIES INC — $2,777,135 · OtherNEW OPPORTUNITIES INCCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC — $1,352,070 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN…THE ACCESS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC — $944,791 · OtherTHE ACCESS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION — $398,800 · OtherRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCI…+4 more — $125,516 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $1,481,216 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY ACT…THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $1,197,021 · Community ImprovementTHAMES VALLEY COU…+1 more — $60,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC — $879,565 · EducationEASTERN AHEC PROPERTY CORPORATION INC — $62,400 · EducationTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $398,800 · Civil RightsNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC — $398,800 · Recreation & SportsCAREER RESOURCES INC — $319,608 · EmploymentFAMILY STRIDES INC — $319,417 · Health
Human Services$6,582,140Other$5,598,312Community Improvement$2,738,237Education$941,965Civil Rights$398,800Recreation & Sports$398,800Employment$319,608Health$319,417

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 budgetNEW OPPORTUNITIES INC — $2,777,135 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC — $2,702,163 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $1,481,216 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC — $1,352,070 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INC — $1,288,875 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $1,197,021 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC — $879,565 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTEAM INC — $795,187 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $398,800 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetMAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION DBA MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $398,800 over 7y, 11% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC — $398,800 over 7y, 66% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION — $398,800 over 7y, 22% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $338,800 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMadonna Place Inc — $320,182 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC — $319,608 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY STRIDES INC — $319,417 over 4y, 19% of budgetGBAPP INC — $296,853 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINC — $291,280 over 4y, 11% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetEASTERN AHEC PROPERTY CORPORATION INC — $62,400 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC — $43,750 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC — $35,505 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

William Caspar Graust…Governor's Partnershi…Connecticut Health Fo…Newalliance Foundatio…Liberty Bank Foundati…Peoples United Commun…United Way of Greater…Yale UniversityThe Community Foundat…Capital Workforce Par…Farmington Bank Commu…American Savings Foun…
William Caspar Graustein Memorial FundCT25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Capital Workforce Partners Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc

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 Connecticut Association for Community Action 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc — 100% of income from government
  • The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc — 97% of income from government
  • Team Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
  • Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
  • The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Community Renewal Team Inc — 77% of income from government
  • New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
  • The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
  • Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Urban Community Allianceinc — 30% of income from government
  • Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Family Strides Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Gbapp Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 27 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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