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BETH-EL CENTER INC

BETH-EL CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,689,204 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ($1,198,659). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$903k
16/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Beth-El Center Inc does

Mission

Temporary shelter and meals to homeless and hungry

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Beth-el center, inc. (the "center") was organized on november 29, 1985 to provide temporary shelter and meals to the homeless and hungry in milford, connecticut. Residents are provided case management services and referrals to help them obtain permanent housing, employment and financial assistance. The center also refers residents to counseling services to address substance abuse and mental health issues, and the soup kitchen serves meals to the hungry. The center operates the "meals to go" program to distribute meals to low income and homeless community members. Approximately 500 individuals were provided shelter services and 50,000 meals were served to the greater community in 2023.

    $1,411,583 spent$65 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,411,583.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($972k) Expenses 100 ($910k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 92 ($897k) Expenses 101 ($921k) Net assets 98 ($990k)2019 Revenue 91 ($889k) Expenses 103 ($939k) Net assets 93 ($942k)2020 Revenue 117 ($1.1M) Expenses 122 ($1.1M) Net assets 95 ($965k)2021 Revenue 146 ($1.4M) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 119 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 150 ($1.5M) Expenses 168 ($1.5M) Net assets 112 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 164 ($1.6M) Expenses 193 ($1.8M) Net assets 97 ($986k)2024 Revenue 194 ($1.9M) Expenses 215 ($2.0M) Net assets 89 ($903k)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (215)Net assets (89)Peer revenue range

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 $1.2M to $2.4M (+102%).

$1.1M
$1.0M
$991k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 54% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 58% · 2023 48% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of BETH-EL CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
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−$24k
’18
−$50k
’19
$22k
’20
$239k
’21
−$66k
’22
−$158k
’23
−$78k
’24
0.8
months of
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.

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Listed2022232321211918
Joined·+5+3+0+6+0+3+0
No longer listed·3208051
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $61k → $293k.

4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 BETH-EL CENTER 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

BETH-EL CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 BETH-EL CENTER INC.

71%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 48% · 2019 51% · 2020 49% · 2021 48% · 2022 74% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of BETH-EL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of BETH-EL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BETH-EL CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding BETH-EL CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record — $947k federal, $2.8M state.

Federal$947k
grants $0contracts $947k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$947k
State$2.8M
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Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.6M
  • Client Services-General$489k
  • State Aid Grants$452k
  • Loans$300k
  • Reimbursements$2k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds BETH-EL CENTER INC?
BETH-EL CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,689,204 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ($1,198,659). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BETH-EL CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,689,204 in grants to BETH-EL CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BETH-EL CENTER INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,198,659 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETH-EL CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing