· Public charity
United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc
To inspire and coordinate the generosity and commitment that sustains a united, thriving community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $1,514,317 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,747,792 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,233,475 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $402k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED COMM & FAM SERV | $230,563 |
| CHILD & FAMILY AGY SECT | $203,867 |
| SAFE FUTURES | $125,757 |
| MADONNA PLACE | $99,829 |
| RIVERFRONT CHILDRENS CTR | $94,446 |
| MARTIN HOUSE | $88,779 |
| SCADD | $74,907 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOC OF SECT | $68,229 |
| THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVIC | $63,118 |
| ALLIANCE FOR LIVING | $54,360 |
| COVENANT SHELTER | $47,119 |
| THE DROP IN LEARNING CENTER | $43,596 |
| TVCCA | $41,678 |
| UCP OF EASTERN CT | $40,457 |
| UNITED WAY 2-1-1 | $39,478 |
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 4 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
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +34%
- CACHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +50%
- SFSafe Futures Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +65%
Funded once
- OPOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +15%
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.
Windham regional community council, inc (wrcc) is committed to improving the health and social well-being of the residents of eastern connecticut.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
DVCC's role is to help those experiencing any level of domestic violence and assist them in building a safer environment for the well-being of themselves and their families. Our services include housing and financial advocacy, legal…
The life center, inc. operates residential centers and conducts outreach helping persons adversely affected by substance abuse find drug free productive and meaningful lives.
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…
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.
Community guidance clinic for central connecticut, an established and trusted community resource, provides comprehensive evidence-based behavioral health services that promote wellness and resilience. our collaborative, family-focused,…
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
Assist individuals with disabilities to enable them to live and/or work more independently in their communities in whatever capacity they are capable of. See Schedule O for more information on the Mission Statement.
The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
New foundations, inc. provides residential facilities, supported living programs, and vocational supports for individuals with special needs who are located throughout the state of connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community and Family Servicesinc and the most unlike its peers is Steps 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 48 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 29 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 UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds Riverfront Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Martin House Inc ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds The Center A Drop-in Community Learning & Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF NEW LONDON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · R S Gernon Trust · Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc
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 Southeastern 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 93% of income from government
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 92% of income from government
- United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut — 85% of income from government
- Sound Community Services Inc — 84% of income from government
- Alliance for Living Inc — 74% of income from government
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 72% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 66% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 62% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc — 47% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 39% of income from government
- The Lighthouse Voc-Ed Center Inc — 31% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 26% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 25% of income from government
- Riverfront Childrens Center Inc — 22% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 22% of income from government
- Southeastern Council On Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc — 21% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 20% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 17% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc — 8% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 8% 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.