Connecticut · Nonprofit
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,819 to it, the largest being NORTH CENTRAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ($208,801). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP has grown faster than half of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incshared funderslocal
- American Association of People With Disabilitiesportfolio match
- Consumer Technology Association Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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: 2023 76% · 2024 69% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $33k → $44k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP’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
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 43% · 2019 33% · 2020 55% · 2021 41% · 2022 64% · 2023 68% — 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
40% of COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
79% of COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you
- American Association of People With Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Consumer Technology Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Usagingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Communications Access Foundation Dba Ability Centralportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rochester Institute of Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Center for Blind Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kessler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Client Services-General$462k
- State Aid Grants$344k
- Board & Care Of Clients$332k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$14k
- Reimbursements$3k
- Transportation Of Persons-Gen$3k
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 COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP?
- COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,819 to it, the largest being NORTH CENTRAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ($208,801). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $529,819 in grants to COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP?
- NORTH CENTRAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $208,801 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing