Connecticut · Nonprofit
A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION
A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($30,720). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $16k
What A Better World - the Adoption Connection does
Mission
Providing adoption services, counseling, and assistance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Birth mother support- providing assistance to birth mothers such as diapers, babyfood, etc.
$24,162 spent28% of program spendingAssisting families in necessary steps to adopt, including travel expenses.
$58,626 spent69% of program spendingHumanitarian aid- providing assistance to provide basic human needs to birth mothers both domestically and internationally.
$2,261 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,049.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $28k to $43k (+52%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
29% of A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Elaine Blondin Mello
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $19k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION has grown faster than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION?
- A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($30,720). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,720 in grants to A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A BETTER WORLD - THE ADOPTION CONNECTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing