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United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc

To inspire and coordinate the generosity and commitment that sustains a united, thriving community.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$231k
Largest
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 2025.

Human Services$7.6MHealth$6.2MHousing & Shelter$1.4MEducation$607kYouth Development$523kEmployment$496kPhilanthropy$396kPublic Safety & Disaster$280kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $1,514,317, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,747,792 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,233,475 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
$43,596
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.
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 13% of United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 87%.

United Way of Southeastern Connecticut 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 28 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
1

Total granted

$18M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+15%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity 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

  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +34%
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +50%
  • SF
    Safe Futures Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • OP
    OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +15%
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
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
2
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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3
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
4
Domestic Violence Crisis Center

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…

Human Services
5
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
6
Natchaug Hospital Inc

The mission of Natchaug Hospital is to provide a continuum of accessible, community-based services for those living with psychiatric illness and chemical dependency or emotional and related educational disabilities, with a commitment to…

Health
7
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
8
Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut Inc

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,…

Human Services
9
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.

—
10
Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc

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.

—
11
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.

—
12
Youth Crisis Center Inc

The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community and Family Servicesinc; 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.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $2,697,731 · Human ServicesCHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTI…Safe Futures Inc: $1,304,755 · Human ServicesSafe Futures IncRiverfront Childrens Center Inc: $1,079,353 · Human ServicesRiverfront Childrens Center IncMadonna Place Inc: $1,055,814 · Human ServicesMadonna Place IncThames River Community Service Inc: $630,881 · Human ServicesThames River Community Service IncPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $320,168 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $279,684 · Human Services+4 more: $248,942 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC: $2,746,113 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SER…CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC: $713,317 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF N…OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF NEW LONDON COUNTY INC: $496,372 · OtherOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION…THE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $387,928 · OtherTHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INCUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut: $288,456 · OtherUnited Cerebral Palsy Associati…YOUTH PROGRAMS OF SE CT: $175,826 · Other+1 more: $121,945 · OtherMartin House Inc: $987,921 · HealthMartin House IncVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $893,439 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCI…SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INC: $756,985 · HealthSOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL …ALLIANCE FOR LIVING INC: $603,101 · HealthALLIANCE FOR LIVING I…SOUND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $185,730 · HealthSOUND COMMUNITY SERVI…The Center A Drop-in Community Learning & Resource Center Inc: $564,272 · EducationHIGHER EDGE INC: $86,534 · EducationThe Covenant Shelter of New London Inc: $437,356 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $377,706 · PhilanthropyTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $291,634 · Community ImprovementCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $209,182 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$7,617,328Other$4,929,957Health$3,427,176Education$650,806Housing & Shelter$437,356Philanthropy$377,706Community Improvement$291,634Crime & Legal$209,182

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 budgetUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC: $2,746,113 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $2,697,731 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $1,304,755 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetRiverfront Childrens Center Inc: $1,079,353 over 9y, 11% of budgetMadonna Place Inc: $1,055,814 over 9y, 12% of budgetMartin House Inc: $987,921 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $893,439 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INC: $756,985 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC: $713,317 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetThames River Community Service Inc: $630,881 over 9y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE FOR LIVING INC: $603,101 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetThe Center A Drop-in Community Learning & Resource Center Inc: $564,272 over 9y, 31% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF NEW LONDON COUNTY INC: $496,372 over 4y, 32% of budgetThe Covenant Shelter of New London Inc: $437,356 over 9y, 13% of budgetTHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $387,928 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $377,706 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $320,168 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $291,634 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut: $288,456 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $279,684 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $209,182 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSOUND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $185,730 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $121,945 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC: $100,179 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $93,775 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHIGHER EDGE INC: $86,534 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetSTEPS Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $9,988 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT53× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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