Connecticut · Nonprofit
CHRYSALIS CENTER INC
CHRYSALIS CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,210,690 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,511,997). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Chrysalis Center Inc does
Mission
Chrysalis center is a private, non-profit, socially innovative, multiservice organization that serves individuals and their families living in the state of connecticut. Chrysalis center helps those living in poverty, veterans, men, women, children, and young adults who are struggling with mental health, addiction, hiv/aids, those returning from incarceration and homelessness.the organization's philosophy of "getting help getting better giving back" is weaved throughout each program and service, inspiring clients to give back to the community, thus truly advancing chrysalis center's mission and transforming lives. For more information visit www.chrysalicenterct.org.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community supportive housing: chrysalis' supportive housing programs have forged innovative paths to end homelessness for more than 20 years. Chrysalis continues to be dedicated to providing homes to individuals and families struggling with homelessness, mental illness, substance use, and hiv/aids. Additionally, chrysalis helps direct veterans, families involved with dcf, and those returning from incarceration to safe and affordable housing. Chrysalis offers supportive services to address the issues that caused participants to become homeless.
$5,612,692 spent$4,689 earned by the program61% of program spendingCommunity case management - community support services and case management services are replicated after national best practices and are designed to assist individuals to meet critical health, recovery, rehabilitative and other individual identified life goals including: obtaining/maintaining safe and affordable housing, managing life tasks essential to living in the community, managing healthcare needs, obtaining employment and other vocational goals, living in an integrated manner in the community of choice in the least restrictive setting and creating and sustaining natural supports in the community.
$1,837,981 spent20% of program spendingRecovery and empowerment - recovery services assist each individual in their recovery process. Aimed at increasing independence and building critical community support networks, these services provide skill based, advocacy, recovery, social, recreational and employment opportunities in a group or one on one setting.
$1,008,161 spent11% of program spendingFood hub: core services include freshplace, homestead farmers' market, food forest at cosgrove commons, railway gardens, urban roots hydroponic grow center, la cocina culinary arts training program & la cocina catering, and the tcc (training & conference center). These programs address food insecurity and employment.urban roots had an expansion project that resulted in the addition of a 180-bucket grow system addition. This is now up and running, and in full operation. The food forest at cosgrove commons received a usda grant and is in the process of replanting, creating additional raised bed gardens, adding fruit trees and nut bushes, and preparing to add a high tunnel to help with growing.the homestead farmers' market had a successful summer season, offering fruits, vegetables, and herbs grown in urban roots, as well as at the food forest at cosgrove commons and railway gardens.la cocina culinary arts training program graduated several classes, resulting in 24 attendees earning their servsafe license and la cocina catering had five food contracts, delivering meals on a daily or weekly basis, and catered over 155 events. The tcc saw an increase in bookings coming out of the…
$698,189 spent$76,068 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,157,023.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $24M to $3.8M (−84%).
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 85% · 2018 81% · 2019 81% · 2020 81% · 2021 83% · 2022 89% · 2023 86% · 2024 78% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Sharon Castelli
CEO
Board chair
Thomas P Kennedy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $519k → $872k.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CHRYSALIS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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
CHRYSALIS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
53% 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 CHRYSALIS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 42% · 2019 38% · 2020 73% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 45% — 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
35% of CHRYSALIS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CHRYSALIS CENTER INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding CHRYSALIS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90.8M on record — $23.5M federal, $67.3M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$21.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
- Department of Agriculture$335k
- Client Services-General$57.2M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$8.0M
- Loans$1.2M
- State Aid Grants$889k
- Client Subsidies$121k
- Conf/Seminars/Workshop-Hosting$17k
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 CHRYSALIS CENTER 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Chrysalis Center Real Estate Corporation · exempt
- Chrysalis Center Housing Development Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC?
- CHRYSALIS CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,210,690 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,511,997). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRYSALIS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $4,210,690 in grants to CHRYSALIS CENTER INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRYSALIS CENTER INC?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $1,511,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRYSALIS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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