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CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,537 to it, the largest being TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION ($82,225). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 Inclocalportfolio match
- Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crutshared funders
- Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptionportfolio match
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. 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: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 97% · 2021 88% · 2022 90% · 2023 95% · 2024 89% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $3k → $36k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 9 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
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 91% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 Inclocalportfolio matchCT · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crutshared fundersNH · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Connecticut Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Association for Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for Americas Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Health Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association of Counties Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hedge Funds Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Focus on Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Petit Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Allianceportfolio 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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.7M on record.
- State Aid Grants$19.6M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$144k
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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES 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.
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 CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC?
- CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,537 to it, the largest being TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION ($82,225). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $100,537 in grants to CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES INC?
- TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT ALLIANCE OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE FAMILIES 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.
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 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