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The Connecticut Project Inc

The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$767k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$3.4MEducation$2.5MCommunity Improvement$2.3MHealth$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.2MCrime & Legal$975kCivil Rights$885kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $506k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+16 grants · $5.9M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$767,000
YALE TRANSITIONS CLINIC$640,000
ALL OUR KIN$600,000
JOBS FOR THE FUTURE$370,000
INFORMCT INC (DBA CONNECTICUT DATA COLLABORATIVE)$350,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES$325,000
A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION$325,000
THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE$320,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN$305,000
CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH$300,000
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT$300,000
THE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC$300,000
FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC$275,000
YALE UNIVERSITY TOBIN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY$260,000
A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION$250,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MADONNA PLACE: $15k → 9%TEAM INC: $200k → 12%SAFE FUTURES: $15k → 9%CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $15k → 9%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 12%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT: $300k → 9%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT: $250k → 9%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT: $200k → 9%BULIDING ONE COMMUNITY: $50k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $225k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 12%URBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of The Connecticut Project Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Connecticut Project Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 18 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$9.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AB
    A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget
  • CC
    CTDATA COLLABORATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $909k · revenue +32% · 26% of their budget
  • CN
    CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $800k · revenue +387%

Funded once

  • CL
    CONNCORP LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +32%
  • AC
    ADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -9%
  • SL
    STUDENT LOAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $167k · revenue -56% · 55% of their budget
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
Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

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.

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2
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
3
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…

—
4
Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board Inc

EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…

Employment
5
The Connecticut Project Inc

The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.

Community Improvement
6
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

—
7
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
10
Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc

Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.

—
11
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Connstep Inc

To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc; the most unlike its peers is Connecticut Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 61 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
33/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Yale University: $1,866,493 · EducationYale UniversityALL OUR KIN INC: $720,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN INCFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC: $525,000 · EducationFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $226,995 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…STUDENT LOAN FUND INC: $167,000 · Education+1 more: $56,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC: $800,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND…THE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC: $666,500 · OtherTHE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND …YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $355,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O…PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES: $670,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIESTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC: $570,000 · OtherTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $300,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUND…JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $370,000 · OtherJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC+20 more: $1,637,500 · Other+20 moreUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $360,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $335,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…4-CT CORP: $300,000 · Philanthropy4-CT CORPTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $285,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CONNECTIC…THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MODERN CL…CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $188,925 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT C…UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $185,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…CONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $55,000 · PhilanthropyA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $1,413,000 · HealthA BETTER WA…ADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC: $225,000 · HealthADVANCING C…NEXT LEVEL EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthSocial Impact Partners Inc: $750,000 · Human ServicesSocial Imp…CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICU…TEAM INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTEAM INCFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS CE…BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $65,000 · Human Services+4 more: $95,000 · Human Services+4 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $892,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INI…REGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL …CONNCORP LLC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCONNCORP …CTDATA COLLABORATIVE: $908,750 · Public BenefitSIMPLIFYCT INC: $75,000 · Public Benefit
Education$3,561,488Other$5,369,000Philanthropy$2,048,925Health$1,728,000Human Services$1,610,000Community Improvement$1,442,000Public Benefit$983,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYale University: $1,866,493 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $1,413,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCTDATA COLLABORATIVE: $908,750 over 2y, 26% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $892,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC: $800,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSocial Impact Partners Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $720,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES: $670,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC: $666,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC: $570,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC: $525,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $370,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $360,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $355,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $350,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $335,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget4-CT CORP: $300,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $300,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetREGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $300,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $285,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCONNCORP LLC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $226,995 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC: $225,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTEAM INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $188,925 over 3y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $185,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSTUDENT LOAN FUND INC: $167,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetEASTCONN REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER INCORPORATED: $165,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE: $145,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAVENLY: $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetACCESS AGENCY INC: $77,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSIMPLIFYCT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $65,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $56,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

William Caspar Graust…Hartford Foundation f…Fairfield County's Co…The Community Foundat…Liberty Bank Foundati…American Savings Foun…Connecticut Network f…Connecticut Health Fo…The Connecticut Commu…Ion Bank Foundation I…The Community Foundat…The Melville Charitab…
William Caspar Graustein Memorial FundCT68.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Melville Charitable Trust Inc

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 The Connecticut Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Connecticut Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • United Way of Connecticut Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Advancing Connecticut Together Inc: 100% of income from government
  • The Housing Collective Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Team Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Community Health Resources Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Conncorp Llc: 69% of income from government
  • Simplifyct Inc: 66% of income from government
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury: 53% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Edadvance: 41% of income from government
  • Havenly: 40% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
  • Ctdata Collaborative: 35% of income from government
  • Urban Community Allianceinc: 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
  • Friends Center for Children Inc: 21% of income from government
  • The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association: 21% of income from government
  • Madonna Place Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Eastconn Regional Educational Service Center Incorporated: 13% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% 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
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partnership for Strong Communities: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
12rely 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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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