· Public charity
Connecticut Legal Services Inc
Connecticut legal services provides access to justice and protects critical civil legal rights of low income individuals and families through representation, systemic advocacy, advice, collaboration, and education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $346k
- $250k+2 grants · $905k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID | $482,685 |
| NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION | $421,871 |
| CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $238,959 |
| CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE | $107,225 |
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 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 FY2025, 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
- GHGREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC8× · 2018–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +26%
- NHNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +39%
- CCCONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +122%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +37%
- HEHEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +231%
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.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
Connecticut legal services provides access to justice and protects critical civil legal rights of low income individuals and families through representation, systemic advocacy, advice, collaboration, and education.
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.
The primary exempt purpose of ct legal rights project, inc. is to provide legal representation and advocacy for low income adults with psychiatric disabilities.
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.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
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.
Connecticut veterans legal center's mission is to empower, support, and improve the lives of connecticut veterans by providing free legal assistance to help them overcome legal barriers to housing, healthcare, income, and recovery.
Lawyers for children america is a lead child advocacy organization protecting the rights of children who are victims of abuse, abandonment, and neglect by providing quality pro bono legal representation and collaborating for systematic…
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Health Equity Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Connecticut Bar Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Connecticut Legal Services 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.
- Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc — 100% of income from government
- Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence Inc — 99% of income from government
- Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
- Health Equity Solutions Inc — 14% 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
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.