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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Environment$1.9MHealth$568kHousing & Shelter$476kHuman Services$399kEducation$364kCommunity Improvement$50k
02FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,857,369, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,906,838 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,049,469 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 · 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
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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

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
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
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
3
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.

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4
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
5
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…

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6
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
7
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
8
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
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…

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10
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
11
New Hope Shelter

Provide homeless with individualized support services and tailored housing solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc; 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 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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…The Community Foundat…The Edward and Mary L…Dime Bank Foundation …Helios FoundationChelsea Groton Founda…William Caspar Graust…Peoples United Commun…Dominion Energy Chari…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
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

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 Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 76%
  • Reliance Health Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Noank Community Support Services Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Windham Regional Community Council Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Thames River Community Service Inc: 76% of income from government
  • New London Homeless Hospitality Center: 47% of income from government
  • Holy Family Home and Shelter Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Eastconn Regional Educational Service Center Incorporated: 13% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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 $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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