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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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$417k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$8.1MCommunity Improvement$6.8MInternational$880kRecreation & Sports$399kCivil Rights$399kHealth$359kEmployment$320kScience & Tech$22k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $2,533,971, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,725,366 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $191,395 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$118,495
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC$417,431
COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC$375,798
HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA$283,427
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVE$236,940
THE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF W CT$223,991
THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY$212,578
THE ACCESS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$181,475
ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT$155,211
TEAM INC$118,495
MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC$60,000
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC$60,000
RHODE ISLAND COMM ACTION ASSOC$60,000
MASSACHUSETTS COMM ACTION ASSOC$60,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE COMM ACTION ASSOC$60,000
THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC$15,325
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.4M) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MADONNA PLACE INC: $115k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $283k → 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 BRITA: $216k → 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%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRIT: $211k → 11%TEAM INC: $118k → 12%SE VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $59k → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 14%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $416k → 11%TRAINING EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: $118k → 12%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $60k → 14%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $194k → 11%TEAM INC: $113k → 12%MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $59k → 14%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $398k → 11%TRAINING EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: $102k → 12%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $182k → 11%TEAM INC: $79k → 12%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $398k → 11%HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITA: $172k → 11%COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $376k → 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%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 22 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$20M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

91%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +37%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +49%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +7%

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Community Action Commission of Belmont County

Community assistance

Human Services
6
Community Action Agency Inc

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

Human Services
7
Community Action Partnership of Middle Alabama Inc

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

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8
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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9
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal
10
Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc

Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…

Community Improvement
11
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…

Health
12
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Action Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wipfli Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $3,077,961 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INCHUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $1,572,302 · Human ServicesHUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INCTEAM INC: $913,682 · Human ServicesTEAM INCMAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION DBA MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $458,800 · Human ServicesMAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION DBA MAI…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: $3,194,566 · OtherNEW OPPORTUNITIES INCCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC: $1,589,010 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN IN…THE ACCESS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC: $1,126,266 · OtherTHE ACCESS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $458,800 · OtherRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATI…CAREER RESOURCES INC: $319,608 · Other+5 more: $146,141 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $1,705,207 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY ACTI…THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,409,599 · Community ImprovementTHAMES VALLEY COUN…CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $1,034,776 · EducationEASTERN AHEC PROPERTY CORPORATION INC: $62,400 · EducationTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $458,800 · Civil RightsNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC: $458,800 · Recreation & SportsFAMILY STRIDES INC: $319,417 · Health+1 more: $8,000 · Health
Human Services$7,419,860Other$6,834,391Community Improvement$3,234,806Education$1,097,176Civil Rights$458,800Recreation & Sports$458,800Health$327,417

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $3,194,566 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL TEAM INC: $3,077,961 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $1,705,207 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC: $1,589,010 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $1,572,302 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,409,599 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $1,034,776 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTEAM INC: $913,682 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMAINE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION DBA MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $458,800 over 8y, 11% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $458,800 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $458,800 over 8y, 22% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC: $458,800 over 8y, 66% 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 budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetEASTERN AHEC PROPERTY CORPORATION INC: $62,400 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC: $50,830 over 2y, 1.4% 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 budgetWIPFLI FOUNDATION INC: $5,300 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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