· Public charity
The Connection Inc
Building safe, healthy, caring communities and inspiring people to reach their full potential as productive and valued citizens.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $1,839,301 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,113,834 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,274,533 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 · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $564k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY | $414,781 |
| WHEELER CLINIC | $328,404 |
| FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC | $280,024 |
| THE ACCESS AGENCY | $252,475 |
| BH CARE | $247,236 |
| WELLMORE INC | $246,381 |
| LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $70,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WCWHEELER CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +41%
- BIBHcare Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +23%
- FPFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- COCONTINUUM OF CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $145k · revenue +138%
- CHCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $143k · revenue +16%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $108k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Liberation programs' mission is to provide prevention, treatment, community outreach, and recovery services to help individuals and their families impacted by substance use and mental health conditions to foster hope and maintain wellness.
Building safe, healthy, caring communities and inspiring people to reach their full potential as productive and valued citizens.
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…
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellmore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Continuum of Care Inc. 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 17 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BHcare Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLMORE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Rushford Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CONTINUUM OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Peoples United Community Foundation · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Connection 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.
- Liberty Community Services — 80% of income from government
- Access Agency Inc — 80% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 78% of income from government
- BHcare Inc — 73% of income from government
- Wellmore Inc — 70% of income from government
- Continuum of Care Inc — 70% of income from government
- Fellowship Place Inc — 56% of income from government
- Wheeler Clinic Inc — 50% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 46% 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.