Connecticut · Nonprofit
Association of Religious Communities Inc
Association of Religious Communities Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,058 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($61,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $276k
- Net assets
- $431k
What Association of Religious Communities Inc does
Mission
Provide social services to those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A.R.C.s Homelessness Support Systems program places homeless people in safe, secure, permanent housing. It also includes the operation of the Danbury Support Center, a homeless shelter with two facilities in Danbury, Connecticut. Funded mostly with grants from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, as coordinated by The Housing Collective and Open Doors Fairfield County, A.R.C. is able to connect clients with support for a security deposit, rent, and ongoing case management.
$923,017 spentof which $9,704 as grants52% of program spendingA.R.C.s Urgent Assistance program provides financial assistance and food to prevent people from becoming homeless. Financial support is provided through government grants, contributions, and in-kind donations. With this support, A.R.C. is able to pay electricity bills, rent and other expenses when clients have been faced with financial hardships. A.R.C.s Comida Food Pantry provides food staples, dry goods, bread, fresh meat and produce to people who do not have the means to provide for themselves. The community served is predominantly immigrants and refugees.
$729,082 spentof which $500 as grants41% of program spendingA.R.C.s Domestic Violence Prevention program provides classes for offending clients to work on changing their behavior. The classes are funded by the State of Connecticut Judicial branch with additional support from private donors. All clients are ordered by the courts to take our classes. A.R.C.s classes are far more efficient than the cost of incarceration and far more successful in preventing recidivism.
$96,522 spentof which $400 as grants5% of program spendingA.R.C.s Interfaith Initiative programs includes a variety of community activities designed to foster interfaith appreciation and public education. A.R.C. edits a Forum on Faith article in the Danbury Newstimes periodical, A.R.C. hosts an Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, and A.R.C. hosts an Interfaith Peace camp for children.
$11,426 spentof which $1,000 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,760,047.
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 2024 to 2025, from $392k to $571k (+46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 61% · 2019 55% · 2020 61% · 2021 59% · 2022 48% · 2023 55% · 2024 54% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Association of Religious Communities Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $38k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Association of Religious Communities Inc’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Association of Religious Communities Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Association of Religious Communities Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 76% · 2019 42% · 2020 80% · 2021 42% · 2022 57% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of Association of Religious Communities Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of Association of Religious Communities Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
Association of Religious Communities Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Association of Religious Communities Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $922k on record — $67k federal, $855k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$67k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$775k
- Client Services-General$80k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Association of Religious Communities Inc
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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Association of Religious Communities Inc: 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 Association of Religious Communities Inc?
- Association of Religious Communities Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,058 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($61,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Association of Religious Communities Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $276,058 in grants to Association of Religious Communities Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association of Religious Communities Inc?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association of Religious Communities Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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