· Public charity
The Connecticut Project Action Fund Inc
Tcp's 501c4 mobilizes people and partners to advocate for improved systems that better the lives of lower-income or asset-limited people in ct, focusing on economic empowerment through early education, housing, democracy, governance, and financial well-being.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| NORWALK ACTS | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY | $15,000 |
| CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH | $15,000 |
| CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH CO CHILD CARE FOR CT'S FUTURE | $15,000 |
| NORTHEAST EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CT | $11,425 |
| CONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP INC | $11,425 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $11,425 |
| CONNECTICUT LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $11,425 |
| BRIDGEPORT GENERATION NOW VOTES | $11,425 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,425 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT | $11,425 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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.
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.
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
To maintain and promote civil liberties and civil rights within the state of ct, including but not limited to the freedoms of speech, press, association, and religion, and the right to due process of law.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
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…
Consumer and environmental protection: We conduct research public education forums and organize residents and coalitions to address consumer and environmental problems.
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
CT Votes for Animals (CVA) is a state-wide, grass-roots animal advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of CTs animals by championing legislative change. CVA effects policy change by mobilizing animal supporters in…
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
CRCJ seeks to build a worker-oriented environmental movement committed to securing a fair and just transition that protects not only the environment but also the livelihoods of workers and their communities.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
The Connecticut League of History Organizations, DBA the Connecticut League of Museums, unifies and strengthens our state's museums and cultural resources to expand their life capacity and community impact. We are the premier destination…
The mission of the connecticut bar association is to work to advance the principles of justice, the practice of law, the image of the profession and public understanding of the law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridgeport Generation Now Votes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds NORWALK ACTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT GENERATION NOW VOTES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CT LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Connecticut Project Action Fund 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.
- Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc — 70% of income from government
- Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
- Norwalk Acts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
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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