Connecticut · Nonprofit
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,996 to it, the largest being NORTH CENTRAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($240,978). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $361k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $562k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Communication Advocacy Network Corp does
Mission
The mission of the Communication Advocacy Network is to empower Deaf, Hard of Hearing, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing blind individuals in Connecticut by providing advocacy and culturally sensitive living services. These services are designed to preserve dignity, promote independence, and foster meaningful connections within their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide personal service to DeafBlind clients utilizing trained support service providers among these with various communication strategies including tactile American Sign Language.
$88,896 spent$119,047 earned by the program53% of program spendingProvide personal services to Deaf elders utilizing trained client support providers among these with various communication strategies including American Sign Language.
$22,689 spent$27,807 earned by the program14% of program spendingProvide service to DeafBlind and Deaf elders for peer mentoring, training, workshops, and consulting for web tech services including interpreting services.
$46,875 spent$46,875 earned by the program28% of program spendingOutreach, education, and prevention programs for the DeafBlind community.
$9,000 spent$9,000 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $167,460.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $93k to $60k (−36%).
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
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.
Board chair
Edward Peltier
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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) — 16% 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 43% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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
81% 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.
Against its field
COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP has grown faster 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
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
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
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP?
- COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,996 to it, the largest being NORTH CENTRAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($240,978). 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 $561,996 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 is the largest funder on record, with $240,978 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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