How much did WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

swcaaolder adultssenior transportadult careelderly nutritionnorthremain independent

2020

mental health

2021

housing elderlyalzheimer's aidtransportation

2022

behavioral healthhousing elderlyalzheimer's aidtransportation

2023

choretorringtonbehavioral healthhousing elderlyalzheimer's aidhealth educationgeer

2024

operationassisted livingliving facilitypart geervillage seniorbehavioral healthalzheimer's aid

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k13 grants · $271k
$50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$250k+3 grants · $3.6M

$20,001

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

NEW OPPORTUNITIES$1,784,292
CITY OF TORRINGTON$1,017,646
RW SOLUTIONS$782,544
CHORE SERVICE$134,186
NAUGATUCK YMCA$122,451
UCP OF EASTERN CT$92,490
HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE$51,347
CT LEGAL SERVICES$41,500
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CT$35,869
MONITOR MY HEALTH$35,000
RENEWAL HOUSE$20,435
HISPANIC COALITION$20,001
INDEPENDENCE NORTHWEST$20,000
TOWN OF NEW MILFORD$18,849
NAUGATUCK SENIOR CENTER$16,956

02The need

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 cost of living 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$23M · 30 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+53%

Still filing today

60%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SC
SENIOR COMPANION TRANSPORT
7× · 2018–2024 · $10M · revenue +36%
RS
RW SOLUTIONS
6× · 2018–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +48%
SC
SHARON CHORE
6× · 2018–2024 · $511k · revenue +32%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF DANBURY
one grant, 2019 · $17k
CS
CHWC SENIOR DENTAL CARE PROGRAMgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +53%
AO
AGENCY ON AGING OF SOUTHgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +26%

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.

Western Connecticut Area Agency

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

Connecticut Association of Health Care

Providing services to and advocates for ct's providers of long-term and assisted living care.

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Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services

Nantucket Community Service Inc

Low income elderly housing

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Craftsbury Community Care Center

Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.

Human Services

Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging Inc

We support people age 60 and older persons with disabilities in their efforts to remain active healthy, financially secure, and in control of their own lives. The Agency connects people and the services they they need to live independently…

Human Services

Willamette View Inc

Provides residential and nursing care, wellness and therapy services through the operation of continuing care retirement community; and provides in-home care services to residents and individuals in the greater community.

Human Services

Mental Health Connecticut Inc

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

Health

Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Coastline elderly services, inc. is a community-based elder care agency located in new bedford, massachusetts, that provides social services to the elderly in greater new bedford and surrounding areas.

Human Services

Clinton Area Care Center Inc

Short and long-term care and housing for the elderly

Human Services

Adult Care Center of Central

Adult day care for frail older adults, particularly those with some form of dementia.

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Wallingford Committee On Aging Inc

To provide services and programs for the older adults of the wallingford community that promote their well being, support their independence and encourage their involvement in community life.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Ct Agency On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nwct Adult Day Center Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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%0/41

the rest of the field

1,129/12,936

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

18/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$17,172,412Employment$4,053,504Human Services$1,024,030Crime & Legal$422,066Housing & Shelter$154,549Community Improvement$145,823Health$85,500Philanthropy$10,000

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.

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.

The Connecticut Community FoundationCT32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community · Point32health Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

7rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LITCHFIELD HILLS CHORE SERVICE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 203824096 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LITCHFIELD HILLS CHORE SERVICE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 41% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Western Connecticut Area Agency?

Find your warmest path to Western Connecticut Area Agency through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Western Connecticut Area Agency?

More from the funding graph

WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Western Connecticut Area Agency?

More from the funding graph