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Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc

To increase self sufficiency and economic security for low income individuals and families in eastern connecticut through a broad spectrum of community based collaborations, promoting community awareness and providing comprehensive, quality services

$9.9M
Granted FY2021
10
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$555k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $1,857,369 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,906,838 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,049,469 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$50,066
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL$555,214
NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER INC$418,691
CARELOT CHILDREN'S CENTER$394,251
EASTCONN$363,957
ACCESS COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$50,066
ALWAYS HOME INC$37,106
RELIANCE HEALTH$13,078
THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE$11,448
HOLY FAMILY HOME & SHELTER$8,344
NOANK COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,214
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
2
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain

The corporation is engaged in encouraging the cooperative efforts of neighborhood representatives, government and participating lending institutions in a combined effort to stem the decline and deterioration of the housing within the city…

Housing & Shelter
3
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
4
Habitat for Humanity of N West Ct

Habitat for humanity of northwest ct, inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to construct and rehabilitate homes for needy individuals and families in northwest connecticut.

5
New Beginnings of Northwest Hills Litchfield County Inc

Provide ongoing housing and supportive services to families and individuals at risk of becoming homeless in torrington, ct and northwest ct.

Unclassified
6
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…

7
Newtown Housing for the Elderly Inc

Newtown housing for the elderly, inc., ("nhe"), is a non-profit organization established to provide low cost housing for those persons aged sixty-two or older and to those persons who are handicapped or disabled. nhe operates nunnawauk…

Housing & Shelter
8
Helping Hands Outreach Ministries Inc

Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.

Housing & Shelter
9
Open Door Counseling Center

Open Door Counseling Center is a HUD Certified Comprehensive Housing Counseling Agency to educate and assist underserved households to obtain and retain affordable permanent housing; provide immediate basic human needs for community…

10
Project Hope of Eastern Connecticut

The windham no freeze project is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to the short and long-term survival of adults experiencing homelessness in the windham region. safe, temporary shelter is provided in a caring environment and connections…

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Networks Inc

Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals

Housing & Shelter
12
Brooklyn Community Housing and Services

To provide short term, transitional and permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, recreational activities and other vital…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thames River Community Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holy Family Home and Shelter 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC — $1,896,381 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INCWINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $555,214 · OtherWINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INCCARELOT CHILDREN'S CENTER — $394,251 · OtherCARELOT CHILDREN'S CENTEREASTCONN REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER INCORPORATED — $363,957 · OtherEASTCONN REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER INCORPORATED+1 more — $50,066 · OtherNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER — $418,691 · Human ServicesNEW LONDON HO…+2 more — $16,662 · Human ServicesALWAYS HOME INC — $37,106 · Housing & ShelterHOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER INC — $8,344 · Housing & ShelterRELIANCE HEALTH INC — $13,078 · Health
Other$3,259,869Human Services$435,353Housing & Shelter$45,450Health$13,078

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC — $1,896,381 over 1y, 18% of budgetWINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $555,214 over 1y, 18% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER — $418,691 over 1y, 11% of budgetACCESS AGENCY INC — $50,066 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC — $37,106 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetRELIANCE HEALTH INC — $13,078 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThames River Community Service Inc — $11,448 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER INC — $8,344 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $5,214 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Liberty Bank Foundation IncCT19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Helios Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 76%
  • Reliance Health Inc100% of income from government
  • Noank Community Support Services Inc100% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc79% of income from government
  • Windham Regional Community Council Inc76% of income from government
  • Thames River Community Service Inc76% of income from government
  • New London Homeless Hospitality Center47% of income from government
  • Holy Family Home and Shelter Inc47% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc29% of income from government
  • Eastconn Regional Educational Service Center Incorporated13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc?

Find your warmest path to Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $13M 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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