· Public charity
Connecticut Bar Foundation
The CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization established in 1952.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $240k
- $250k+10 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES | $11,452,128 |
| GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID | $5,548,191 |
| NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE | $4,676,817 |
| CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY | $1,008,294 |
| CONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT | $860,153 |
| CONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER | $847,404 |
| CONNECTICUT FAIR HOUSING CENTER | $789,301 |
| STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES | $480,106 |
| OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE | $328,648 |
| THE CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF | $316,204 |
| LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA | $165,362 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION | $48,692 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $83M · revenue +23% · 78% of their budget
- GHGREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37M · revenue +24% · 93% of their budget
- NHNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32M · revenue +34% · 85% of their budget
Funded once
- VRVICTIM RIGHTS CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
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 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.
Community legal aid socal provides compassionate, holistic, and impactful legal services to residents of los angeles and orange counties who need help with housing, family law, healthcare access and other areas of law.
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.
Clasi provides free civil legal services to people with disabilities; people with low incomes; victims of housing discrimination; older citizens (60 and over); victims of domestic violence; and immigrant victims of crime, abuse and neglect.
To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds VICTIM RIGHTS CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Connecticut Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connecticut Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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