· Public charity
Connecticut Bar Foundation
The CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization established in 1952.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $377k
- $250k+9 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES | $11,341,843 |
| NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE | $5,519,838 |
| GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID | $5,048,769 |
| STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES | $916,349 |
| CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY | $860,754 |
| CONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER | $823,549 |
| CONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT | $794,441 |
| THE CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF | $295,382 |
| CONNECTICUT FAIR HOUSING CENTER | $281,490 |
| LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA | $161,704 |
| OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE | $125,135 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF | $90,000 |
| INTEGRATED REFUGE & IMMIGRANT SERVI | $11,024 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CLCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $71M · revenue +23% · 78% of their budget
- GHGREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC8× · 2017–2024 · $31M · revenue +24% · 93% of their budget
- NHNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $28M · revenue +34% · 85% of their budget
Funded once
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INCone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +19%
- VRVICTIM RIGHTS CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
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…
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.
The mission of the connecticut bar association is to work to advance the principles of justice, the practice of law, the image of the profession and public understanding of the law.
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.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
To maintain and promote civil liberties and civil rights within the state of ct, including but not limited to the freedoms of speech, press, association, and religion, and the right to due process of law.
The connecticut trial lawyers association is a non-profit association dedicated to creating and maintaining a more just society by preserving individual rights within the civil justice system.
The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yale University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FAIR HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIM RIGHTS CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Legal Services Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Aetna Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Bar Foundation 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.
- Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc — 60% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Fair Housing Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Lawyers for Children America Inc — 19% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
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.