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ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION

ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,000 to it, the largest being THRESHOLD FOUNDATION ($122,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$145k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$252k
Net assets
$116k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Atelier for Community Transformation does

Mission

River protection and community well-being in the balkans.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Environmental stewardship & river protection: the organization develops and delivers community education programs on environmental stewardship, including the protection and restoration of local rivers. Activities include public workshops, volunteer engagement, community clean-ups, and awareness initiatives.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  2. Healing balkans (community mental health & resilience programs): the organization offers educational sessions and community programs focused on mental health, resilience, stress reduction, and social well-being. Activities include talks and training serving diverse communities.

    $32,817 spentof which $28,640 as grants
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,817.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Marsela Pecanac

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $90k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION’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

ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION.

48%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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.

Where its funders are

ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.

NY
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin56% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION?
ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,000 to it, the largest being THRESHOLD FOUNDATION ($122,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $252,000 in grants to ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION?
THRESHOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $122,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 3 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