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Special Olympics Connecticut Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Special Olympics Connecticut Inc

The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities; giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills…

$682k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$596k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2024.

Education$3.8MRecreation & Sports$223k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $619,496, the rows itemized in this filing. The $681,650 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,154 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
  • $250k+1 grant · $596k
$595,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INC$595,500
WATERBURY POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE$23,996
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 field
04the grantee network

4 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INC: $4,402,072 · EducationCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INCPOLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY: $188,996 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOGINCHAUG REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $8,000 · Other
Education$4,402,072Youth Development$188,996Human Services$50,000Other$8,000

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 budgetCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INC: $4,402,072 over 9y, 13% of budgetPOLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY: $188,996 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Special Olympics Connecticut Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Special Olympics Connecticut Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 82%
  • The Arc of Litchfield County Inc: 82% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 4 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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