Colorado · Nonprofit
Community Connections Inc
Community Connections Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $668,999 to it, the largest being NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE D/B/A NEXT50 ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $669k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Community Connections Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to connect people with disabilities, developmental delays, and complex needs to the resources they choose to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Case management - provides case management, care planning, and makes referrals to other resources for health first colorado (colorado's medicaid program) members with the following qualifying needs: elderly, blind and disabled, persons living with hiv/aids, mental health, brain injury, children with a life-limiting illness and medically fragile children. Sep also offers the home care allowance program. Home care allowance is a financial assistance program for elderly, low income and/or disabled colorado residents. It is intended to help program participants avoid placement in a nursing home by paying for unskilled home care services, which allow them to continue living independently.
$2,196,133 spent$3,214,451 earned by the program41% of program spendingOther program services - other programs such as early intervention and family support services. Early intervention is a program for children from birth through age two offering infants and toddlers and their families services and supports to enhance child development in the areas of cognition, speech, communication, physical, motor, vision, hearing, social emotional development and self-help skills, parent-child or family interactions and early indentification, screening, and assement services. Family support services provide an array of supportive services to the person with a development disability and his/her family when the person remains within the family home, therby preventing or delaying the need for out-of-home placement that is unwanted by the person or the family.
$894,627 spent$720,855 earned by the program17% of program spendingSupported living services (sls) - services provided for individuals with idd who live independently or with alternative residential supports (such as family). Services may assist caregivers to be more effective in their role or support adults with idd to increase their independence and social integration into their community of choice. Participants set personal goals and select from a variety of services to meet those goals. Typical services include personal care, homemaking, respite, supported employment, assistive technology and supported community connections.
$58,284 spent$77,338 earned by the program1% of program spendingTransfer of Assets to Our Own Lives
$2,267,770 spentof which $2,267,770 as grants42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,416,814.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $5.5M to $3.3M (−40%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 13% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of Community Connections Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Tara Kiene
CEO
Board chair
Sarah Kahn
Chair Person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $110k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Community Connections 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
Community Connections Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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 Community Connections Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 83% · 2020 58% · 2021 34% · 2022 30% · 2023 68% — 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
71% of Community Connections Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
82% of Community Connections Inc's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k 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
Community Connections Inc is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Connections 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Community Connections Inc: 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 Community Connections Inc?
- Community Connections Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $668,999 to it, the largest being NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE D/B/A NEXT50 ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Connections Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $668,999 in grants to Community Connections Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Connections Inc?
- NEXTFIFTY INITIATIVE D/B/A NEXT50 is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Connections Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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