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United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc

The united way of meriden and wallingford is a volunteer-driven organization that redirects human and financial resources to create lasting change in our communities by supporting residents to gain an education and training sufficient to produce income stability and health-related opportunities.

$547k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$124k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.0MHuman Services$1.0MEmployment$232kReligion$108kEducation$104kCrime & Legal$86kHousing & Shelter$48kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $486,947, the rows itemized in this filing. The $546,588 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,641 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
$21,947
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER$123,735
SPANISH COMMUNITY OF WALLINGFORD$93,121
NEW OPPORTUNITIES$67,919
KUHN EMPLOYMENT$44,024
GIRLS INC$26,252
HUBCAPOF WALLINGFORD INC$26,250
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS$21,947
SALVATION ARMY$20,059
MASTER'S MANNA$12,000
COMMUNITY GUIDANCE CLINIC$11,688
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$11,452
TRICIRCLE$10,000
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$10,000
SENIOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES$8,500
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.

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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 21 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
3

Total granted

$2.4M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+55%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CG
    COMMUNITY GUIDANCE CLINIC FOR CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $396k · revenue +14%
  • CH
    COMUNIDAD HISPANA DE WALLINGFORD
    7× · 2017–2024 · $264k · revenue +87%
  • WA
    WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BT
    BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +55%
  • SC
    SOUTH CENTRAL CT SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MIDDLESEX
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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 Counseling Centers Inc

To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.

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2
United Services Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Rushford Center Inc

Rushford Center, Inc., is dedicated to meeting the substance abuse and mental health needs of children, adults and families. Working cooperatively with our Hartford HealthCare network partners and others who share our goals, Rushford…

Health
4
The Life Center of Connecticut Inc

The life center, inc. operates residential centers and conducts outreach helping persons adversely affected by substance abuse find drug free productive and meaningful lives.

Health
5
Continuum of Care Inc

To provide comprehensive community based residential and support services that enable persons with psychiatric and developmental disabilities to live as fully in the community as possible.

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6
Windham Regional Community Council Inc

Windham regional community council, inc (wrcc) is committed to improving the health and social well-being of the residents of eastern connecticut.

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7
Center for Urban Research Education and Training Inc

Providing programs and services to city of Hartford and its surrounding communities

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8
Central Naugatuck Valley Help Inc

The mission of cnv help, inc. is as follows: we are a nonprofit organization which inspires hope and promotes wellness and healing through a continuum of behavioral health services - prevention, treatment, recovery supports, and community…

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9
United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc

The united way of meriden and wallingford is a volunteer-driven organization that redirects human and financial resources to create lasting change in our communities by supporting residents to gain an education and training sufficient to…

Philanthropy
10
Chemical Abuse Services Agency Inc

Our mission is to provide holistic and culturally competent community-based behavioral health services to individuals, families and communities in connecticut seeking recovery from addictions, co-occurring disorders, and related behavioral…

Health
11
Hartford Community Mental Health Center

To provide outpatient behavioral health services primarily for the underserved residents of the city of hartford, ct.

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12
Workforce Alliance Inc

Provide job training through various programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women and Families Center; the most unlike its peers is Beat the Street Community Center 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

19 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. 19 of the 29 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY GUIDANCE CLINIC FOR CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC: $396,438 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY GUIDANCE CLINIC FOR CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INCCOMUNIDAD HISPANA DE WALLINGFORD: $264,024 · Human ServicesCOMUNIDAD HISPANA DE WALLINGFORDWOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $233,125 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTERYMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC: $142,950 · Human ServicesYMCA OF WALLINGFORD INCMERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC: $134,000 · Human ServicesMERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INCMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC…+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesUlbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990: $143,000 · OtherUlbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 202…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MERIDEN: $128,200 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MERIDENLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $104,410 · OtherLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW …BEAT THE STREET: $102,000 · OtherBEAT THE STREETNEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $67,919 · OtherNEW OPPORTUNITIES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $59,452 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESRSVP: $42,260 · OtherVITA-HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW: $33,944 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $31,059 · Other+7 more: $105,832 · Other+7 moreKUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $197,844 · EmploymentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $86,000 · Crime & LegalMaster's Manna Inc: $72,000 · Food & NutritionCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $48,000 · Housing & ShelterBEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$1,268,037Other$818,076Employment$197,844Youth Development$100,000Crime & Legal$86,000Food & Nutrition$72,000Housing & Shelter$48,000Recreation & Sports$40,000

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 GUIDANCE CLINIC FOR CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC: $396,438 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetCOMUNIDAD HISPANA DE WALLINGFORD: $264,024 over 7y, 12% of budgetWOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER: $233,125 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetKUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $197,844 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetUlbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990: $143,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetYMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC: $142,950 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC: $134,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MERIDEN: $128,200 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $104,410 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC: $100,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $86,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $77,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaster's Manna Inc: $72,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $67,919 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $48,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTRICIRCLE CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetSENIOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC: $8,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL CT SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY GUIDANCE CLINIC FOR CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds COMUNIDAD HISPANA DE WALLINGFORD ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Ulbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990 ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MERIDEN ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Master's Manna Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TRICIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL CT SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL INC ↗

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.

Ion Bank Foundation I…Liberty Bank Foundati…The James H Napier Fo…Meriden FoundationAmerican Savings Foun…The Community Foundat…Wadsworth Family Foun…Friends Fiduciary Cor…Community Foundation …The Maximilian E and …William Caspar Graust…Eversource Energy Fou…
Ion Bank Foundation IncCT36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The James H Napier Foundation · Meriden Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Wadsworth Family Foundation · Friends Fiduciary Corporation · Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation 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 United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Columbus House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Kuhn Employment Opportunities Inc: 91% of income from government
  • New Opportunities Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Tricircle Corporation: 43% of income from government
  • Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Comunidad Hispana De Wallingford: 38% of income from government
  • Beat the Street Community Center Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Meriden: 21% of income from government
  • Women and Families Center: 18% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Meriden-Wallingford Chrysalis Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 29 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $357k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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