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United Way of Northwest Connecticut Inc

United way of northwest connecicut inc.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$855kHealth$252kFood & Nutrition$196kYouth Development$106kPhilanthropy$59kAnimals$50kEmployment$20kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $20,442 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $47,007 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,565 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$11,442
Median grant
1
States reached
$654k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS$11,442
NW CT YMCA$9,000
02The need
03

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.

None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+104%

Still filing today

83%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • NC
    NORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +55%
  • WA
    Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $111k · revenue +28%
  • TA
    THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $98k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TP
    TORRINGTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +37% · 27% of their budget
  • AW
    Action Wildlife Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +234%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER OF GREATER TORRINGTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +104%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

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…

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2
Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

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.

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3
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.

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4
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
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
6
Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut Inc

VNA of South Central Connecticut, Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the health, well being and quality of life at home and in the community is serves.

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7
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
8
Connecticut Community Care Inc

Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…

Health
9
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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10
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
11
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
12
Western Connecticut Area Agency On Aging Inc

The western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Action Wildlife 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.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr17%5%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr15%41%35–55yr21%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr17%4%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr15%68%35–55yr21%21%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
9%
606/6,690

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INC — $437,214 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INCTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC — $98,496 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INCSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC — $52,946 · Human ServicesSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD — $37,961 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD+1 more — $17,610 · Human ServicesWinsted Area Child Care Center Inc — $110,966 · OtherWinsted Area Child Care Center IncCMHA — $82,376 · OtherCMHAMCCALL FOUNDATION INC — $82,206 · OtherMCCALL FOUNDATION INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $65,114 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYVISITING NURSE SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC — $51,141 · OtherVISITING NURSE SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT…THE ROBERT C GEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $26,409 · OtherCanaan Child Care Inc — $24,454 · OtherGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — $22,171 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL INC — $18,038 · OtherPRIME TIME HOUSE INC — $20,463 · Other+3 more — $35,801 · Other+3 moreFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF — $184,351 · Housing & ShelterFISHFRIENDS I…UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC — $46,406 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT — $12,500 · PhilanthropyWARNER THEATRE PRESERVATION TRUST — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTORRINGTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $50,204 · Youth DevelopmentAction Wildlife Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER OF GREATER TORRINGTON INC — $35,784 · Health
Human Services$644,227Other$539,139Housing & Shelter$184,351Philanthropy$68,906Youth Development$50,204Arts & Culture$50,000Health$35,784

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INC — $437,214 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF — $184,351 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWinsted Area Child Care Center Inc — $110,966 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC — $98,496 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMCCALL FOUNDATION INC — $82,206 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC — $52,946 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC — $51,141 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTORRINGTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $50,204 over 1y, 27% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC — $46,406 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD — $37,961 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER OF GREATER TORRINGTON INC — $35,784 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROBERT C GEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $26,409 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanaan Child Care Inc — $24,454 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — $22,171 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRIME TIME HOUSE INC — $20,463 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL INC — $18,038 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFalls Village Daycare Center Inc — $17,610 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC — $12,276 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWARNER THEATRE PRESERVATION TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budget
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.

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.

Northwest Community B…Northwest Connecticut…The Connecticut Commu…Torrington Savings Fo…Aetna Foundation IncAmerican Savings Foun…Thomaston Savings Ban…Foundation for Commun…The United Way of Gre…Connecticut Health Fo…Union Savings Bank Fo…William Caspar Graust…
Northwest Community Bank Foundation IncCT28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Torrington Savings Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Foundation for Community Health Inc · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund

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 United Way of Northwest Connecticut 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
  • The Arc of Litchfield County Inc — 97% of income from government
  • Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Mccall Foundation Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Community Health & Wellness Center of Greater Torrington Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
  • Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of — 39% of income from government
  • Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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