Connecticut · Nonprofit
City Mission
City Mission (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,019 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($29,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $9k
What City Mission does
Mission
Our mission is to love our neighbors by serving Waterbury. Through compassion and community engagement we aim to serve people change lives and transform our city. We envision a city where all are valued and no one goes hungry. In the past year alone we distributed over 100,000 meals to individuals and families in Waterbury CT demonstrating our ongoing commitment to meeting basic needs and creating lasting impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
City Mission operates a Free Food Program that runs Monday through Friday each week dedicated to addressing food insecurity in Waterbury and the greater Waterbury area. Through strong partnerships with local organizations we are working to reduce hunger and ensure consistent access to nutritious food for both individuals and families in need.Our efforts include weekly distributions of non-perishable food items to ten partner organizations and community beneficiaries. In addition we host bimonthly events where we distribute over 150 pantry bags directly to residents and we organize monthly food collection drives at local grocery stores to help sustain our outreach. This program reached people over 35,000 individuals this past year.
$26,444 spentof which $26,444 as grants100% of program spendingOur Community Development Program is designed to equip residents with essential skills that can enhance their daily lives and overall well-being. Through monthly classes and interactive workshops we create opportunities for individuals and families to come together learn and grow. Participants gain valuable knowledge in areas such as healthy cooking household budgeting food quality awareness CPR training and more. These sessions are tailored to serve a wide range of age groups including seniors parents students and families ensuring that everyone can benefit. Our goal is to unite communities and expand our impact throughout the Greater Waterbury Area by offering practical life-enriching education that empowers people to thrive. This program served 20 individuals and families per class.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,444.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Troy Gonda
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 City Mission’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
City Mission has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
72% 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 City Mission.
“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
51% of City Mission'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. Of the $57k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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.
Against its field
City Mission runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like City Mission
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for City Mission: 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 City Mission?
- City Mission (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,019 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($29,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does City Mission have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $116,019 in grants to City Mission, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of City Mission?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $29,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like City Mission 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 7 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