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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$483k
Largest
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 2025.

Crime & Legal$11MCommunity Improvement$382kHealth$150k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $346k
  • $250k+2 grants · $905k
$421,871
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.
$11M · 6 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$11M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+231%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • GH
    GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +26%
  • NH
    NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +39%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +37%
  • HE
    HEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +231%
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 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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2
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.

Crime & Legal
3
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
4
Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc

The primary exempt purpose of ct legal rights project, inc. is to provide legal representation and advocacy for low income adults with psychiatric disabilities.

Unclassified
5
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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6
Connecticut Bar Association Inc

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.

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7
Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

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…

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9
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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10
The Hartford County Bar Association Inc

To advance jurisprudence and administration of justice, to uphold and improve the professional and educational standards of the legal profession and provide the public with a lawyer referral service to advance the cause of law.

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11
The Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice inc

Connecticut Appleseed's mission is to develop solutions for the causes, rather than the symptoms, of our state's social problems. We deploy volunteer lawyers and other professionals to achieve systemic changes through legal and legislative…

Crime & Legal
12
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut Inc

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.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC: $4,236,942 · Crime & LegalGREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INCCONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $1,917,472 · Crime & LegalCONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC+1 more: $100,000 · Crime & LegalNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $3,511,386 · OtherNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INCCONNECTICUT ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC: $871,089 · OtherCONNECTICUT ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE …OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC: $381,709 · EducationCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsHEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INC: $26,909 · Health
Crime & Legal$6,254,414Other$4,382,475Education$381,709Civil Rights$75,000Health$26,909

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID INC: $4,236,942 over 8y, 14% of budgetNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $3,511,386 over 8y, 10% of budgetCONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $1,917,472 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC: $871,089 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetOPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC: $381,709 over 3y, 28% of budgetSTATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INC: $26,909 over 1y, 7.6% 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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Legal Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connecticut Legal Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 8 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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