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Middlesex United Way Inc

By cultivating leadership and partnerships, bringing resources together, and investing in our community, Middlesex United Way acts as a catalyst to achieve measurable positive impact in youth opportunity, creating healthy communities, financial security, equity, and community resiliency.

$370k
Granted FY2023
21
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Health$1.8MHousing & Shelter$645kEducation$500kFood & Nutrition$199kArts & Culture$163kEmployment$157kPhilanthropy$153kYouth Development$124kOther$0
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $311,810, the rows itemized in this filing. The $370,045 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,235 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k9 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
$12,744
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF NO MIDDLESEX CITY$40,767
THE CONNECTION - EDDY SHELTER$32,108
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL PERINATAL PROG$24,681
GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES$23,181
MARC - COMMUNITY RESOURCES$21,862
CHILD FAMILY AGENCY OF SE CT$17,181
MIDDLETOWN YOUTH SERVICES$16,750
HOPE PARTNERSHIP$16,016
KUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES$15,000
ODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE$13,250
COLUMBUS HOUSE$12,744
WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER - SACS$11,681
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL & NE CT$9,268
THE CONNECTION - HALLIE HOUSE$8,681
MX CITY - COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS$8,580
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.
$3.8M · 39 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
4

Total granted

$3.8M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-1%

Still filing today

69%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $462k · revenue +37%
  • TC
    THE CONNECTION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $340k · revenue +16%
  • II
    IMPACT INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $287k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • MY
    MIDDLESEX YOUTH SERVICE BUREAUS
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
United Services Inc

United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…

Human Services
2
Windham Regional Community Council Inc

Windham regional community council, inc (wrcc) is committed to improving the health and social well-being of the residents of eastern connecticut.

—
3
Continuum of Care Inc

To provide comprehensive community based residential and support services that enable persons with psychiatric and developmental disabilities to live as fully in the community as possible.

—
4
Hart United Inc

To provide support services to individuals with developmental disabilities throughout connecticut and to maintain a commitment to empower individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to have more choices and opportunities…

Unclassified
5
Connecticut Counseling Centers Inc

To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.

—
6
Community Solutions Inc

Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.

Health
7
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement
8
Midwestern Connecticut Council of Alcoholism Inc

To provide help and hope for individuals, families and organizations working to overcome and prevent addictions, co-occurring disorders and associated problems.

Health
9
Community Health Resources Inc

CHR's mission is to provide treatment, support, rehabilitation, prevention, and education by a well-trained and dedicated staff of professionals who are committed to recovery. Notably, CHR was the first nonprofit in CT to meet all the…

Health
10
United Way of Greater New Haven Inc

United way of greater new haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges in the areas of education, health, and financial stability, grounded in racial and social justice. we…

Philanthropy
11
Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc

The mission of middlesex human service agency, inc. is to improve the quality of life and independent functioning of a wide variety of clients through the delivery of an extensive system of community-based substance abuse and social…

Housing & Shelter
12
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut; the most unlike its peers is John J Driscoll United Labor Agency. 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

29 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. 29 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $199,999 · OtherGILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INCST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN: $135,232 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWNSHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES: $63,575 · OtherYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF HADDAM-KILLINGWORTH INC: $62,275 · OtherWESTBROOK HIGH SCHOOL: $62,275 · OtherMIDDLESEX HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $60,070 · OtherACTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $55,806 · OtherMiddletown Board of Education: $54,844 · OtherEAST HAMPTON BOARD OF EDUCATION: $48,393 · OtherLITERACY VOLUNTEERS VALLEY SHORE CT INC: $74,824 · OtherLITERACY VOLUNTEERS VALLEY SHORE CT INCEAST HADDAM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $53,775 · Other+17 more: $493,482 · Other+17 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $462,176 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIO…IMPACT INC: $286,870 · Human ServicesIMPACT INCCHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $158,617 · Human ServicesCHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUT…WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $156,688 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER+1 more: $5,050 · Human ServicesTHE CONNECTION INC: $339,774 · HealthTHE CONNECTION INCMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $223,815 · HealthMIDDLESEX HOSPITALRushford Center Inc: $136,422 · HealthRushford Center IncHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC: $155,872 · Housing & ShelterCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $107,997 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $72,139 · PhilanthropyMiddlesex United Way Inc: $66,805 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $29,925 · PhilanthropyODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE: $162,976 · Arts & CultureKUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $127,300 · Employment
Other$1,364,550Human Services$1,069,401Health$700,011Housing & Shelter$263,869Philanthropy$168,869Arts & Culture$162,976Employment$127,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $462,176 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CONNECTION INC: $339,774 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT INC: $286,870 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $223,815 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $199,999 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE: $162,976 over 7y, 11% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $158,617 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $156,688 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC: $155,872 over 7y, 34% of budgetRushford Center Inc: $136,422 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN: $135,232 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetKUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $127,300 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $107,997 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS VALLEY SHORE CT INC: $74,824 over 7y, 37% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $72,139 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMiddlesex United Way Inc: $66,805 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF HADDAM-KILLINGWORTH INC: $62,275 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetMIDDLESEX HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $60,070 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetEAST HADDAM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $53,775 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSAINT LUKE'S HOME: $45,025 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: $30,695 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $30,271 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJohn J Driscoll United Labor Agency: $30,014 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $29,925 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDurham-Middlefield Youth & Family Services Inc: $25,600 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-TOWN YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU INC: $24,400 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC: $20,501 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTBROOK YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,050 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Rushford Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN ↗
  • Who funds KUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS VALLEY SHORE CT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds Middlesex United Way Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF HADDAM-KILLINGWORTH INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST HADDAM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LUKE'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds John J Driscoll United Labor Agency ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
  • Who funds Durham-Middlefield Youth & Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRI-TOWN YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY 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.

Liberty Bank Foundati…Community Foundation …American Savings Foun…Aetna Foundation IncThe Maximilian E and …William Caspar Graust…Ion Bank Foundation I…Eversource Energy Fou…United Way of Greater…United Way Inc United…Webster Bank Charitab…Thomas Atkins Meml Fd…
Liberty Bank Foundation IncCT38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Thomas Atkins Meml Fd Tr Uw

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 Middlesex United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Middlesex United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • United Way of Connecticut Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Columbus House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • The Connection Inc: 99% of income from government
  • Kuhn Employment Opportunities Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Gilead Community Services Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Youth & Family Services of Haddam-Killingworth Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Rushford Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Women and Families Center: 18% of income from government
  • Durham-Middlefield Youth & Family Services Inc: 14% of income from government
  • East Haddam Youth & Family Services Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Tri-Town Youth Services Bureau Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Westbrook Youth and Family Services Inc: 7% of income from government
  • St Vincent Depaul Middletown: 6% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 43 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 2023, released 2023. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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