· Public charity
United Way of West Central Connecticut Inc
To raise funds used to support various local charities and community initiatives that provide human services throughout the towns of bristol, burlington, plainville and plymouth connecticut.
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 1 grants below total $5,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $315,945 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $310,745 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORK IT CAREERS | $5,200 |
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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BBBristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $191k · revenue +81%
- WCWHEELER CLINIC INC5× · 2017–2021 · $112k · revenue +41%
- BABRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $107k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- BCBristol Community Organization Incone grant, 2017 · $13k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORDone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +15%
- CYCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -18%
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.
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.
Non-profit organization which was founded by the state of ct general assembly as a model for employer - sponsored childcare programs.
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…
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…
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
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…
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…
To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parc Inc Plainville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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.
23 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. 23 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.
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 Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Plainville Early Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EDADVANCE ↗
- Who funds St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Plainville Community Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds Bristol Community Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds PARC INC PLAINVILLE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut 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: Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Main Street Community Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Health 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 West Central 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 — 100% of income from government
- Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc — 96% of income from government
- Bristol Adult Resource Center Inc — 94% of income from government
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Wheeler Clinic Inc — 47% of income from government
- Edadvance — 41% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
- Plainville Early Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc — 31% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Bristol Child Development Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bristol Hospital Inc — 1% 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.