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Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund

This is a non-profit association whose purpose is to promote the legitimate interests of the mechanical contracting industry through lawful and honorable means. It fosters and promotes the mechanical contracting industry by means of public, customer and employer education and information; better understanding between employers and their…

$72k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
2
’18
1
’19
1
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2021
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$4.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$10k100%
FY20191$5k0%
FY20182$15k100%
FY20171$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kEducation$10kHuman Services$10kYouth Development$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Danbury Education Foundation Inc$10,000211%
Anns Place Inc$10,00011%
McAa Charitable Fund$10,0001n/a
Cardinal Shehan Center Inc$6,10010%

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Find your warmest path to Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund

How much does Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund give?
Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund reported 1 itemized grants totaling $50,000, out of $71,755 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (61%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%), Education (10%).
Who are Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Danbury Education Foundation Inc ($10k), Anns Place Inc ($10k), McAa Charitable Fund ($10k).
Does Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund based?
Mechanical Contractors Association Connecticut Industry Fund is based in CT.

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 6 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $13k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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