· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
How this is measured
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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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