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United Way of West Central Connecticut Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$316k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
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 2025.

Health$333kHuman Services$269kYouth Development$216kEducation$91kHousing & Shelter$38kPhilanthropy$33kCrime & Legal$18kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $315,945 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $310,745 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.
$5,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$933k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORK IT CAREERS$5,200
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 20 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

95%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BB
    Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $191k · revenue +81%
  • WC
    WHEELER CLINIC INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $112k · revenue +41%
  • BA
    BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $107k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bristol Community Organization Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +15%
  • CY
    CONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -13%
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
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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2
Capitol Child Development Center Inc

Non-profit organization which was founded by the state of ct general assembly as a model for employer - sponsored childcare programs.

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3
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
4
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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5
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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6
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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7
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

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…

Health
8
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
9
Child Care Council of Dutchess and Putnam Inc

To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.

Human Services
10
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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11
Children in Placement Inc

The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Connecticut Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF BRISTOL INC: $127,790 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF BRISTOL INCBRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $107,362 · OtherBRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INCBRISTOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $42,946 · OtherBRISTOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCEDADVANCE: $31,782 · OtherEDADVANCECOMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INC: $24,825 · OtherCOMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INCYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $22,214 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW…Bristol Community Organization Inc: $12,825 · Other+3 more: $12,040 · OtherBristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc: $191,415 · Youth DevelopmentBristol Boys & Girls C…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $17,720 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE…WHEELER CLINIC INC: $112,015 · HealthWHEELER CLINIC INCBRISTOL HOSPITAL INC: $68,124 · HealthBRISTOL HOSPITAL IN…PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC: $77,674 · Human ServicesPRUDENCE CRANDALL …Plainville Early Learning Center Inc: $32,560 · Human ServicesPlainville Early L…Plainville Community Food Pantry Inc: $15,676 · Human ServicesPlainville Communi…REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $12,779 · Human ServicesREGIONAL YOUNG MEN…CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $10,762 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT COALIT…PARC INC PLAINVILLE: $9,945 · Human ServicesPARC INC PLAINVILL…CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $6,840 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $32,762 · PhilanthropySt Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc: $27,696 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $17,720 · Crime & LegalLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC: $16,531 · Education
Other$381,784Youth Development$209,135Health$180,139Human Services$166,236Philanthropy$32,762Housing & Shelter$27,696Crime & Legal$17,720Education$16,531

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc: $191,415 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWHEELER CLINIC INC: $112,015 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $107,362 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC: $77,674 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBRISTOL HOSPITAL INC: $68,124 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRISTOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $42,946 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $32,762 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlainville Early Learning Center Inc: $32,560 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEDADVANCE: $31,782 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc: $27,696 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INC: $24,825 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $22,214 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $17,720 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $17,720 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC: $16,531 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPlainville Community Food Pantry Inc: $15,676 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBristol Community Organization Inc: $12,825 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $12,779 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $10,762 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARC INC PLAINVILLE: $9,945 over 5y, 10% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $6,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $3,420 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $3,420 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Farmington Bank Commu…Main Street Community…American Savings Foun…Community Foundation …Thomaston Savings Ban…United Way Inc United…Aetna Foundation IncThe Connecticut Commu…Hartford Foundation f…Liberty Bank Foundati…Fairfield County's Co…Connecticut Health Fo…
Farmington Bank Community Foundation IncCT30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 25 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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