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CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $435k
What Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc does
Mission
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cafca provides a framework for the statewide anti-poverty network that works to reduce and alleviate the conditions and barriers that perpetuate poverty. Programs provided by member agencies include: asset development, childcare and youth development, criminal justice, energy and weatherization, health, housing and shelter, nutrition, senior care, and family development.
$3,484,027 spentof which $2,725,366 as grants94% of program spendingCafca provides education and training to its delegate agencies. Its annual conference attracts more than 300 leaders, child advocates and other stakeholders from all sectors of the state who are developing high impact strategies to end poverty.
$205,426 spent$49,121 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,689,453.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $846k to $1.3M (+53%).
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 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2022 92% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Amos Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION 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
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.5M
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 ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION 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 CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $82,500 in grants to CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC?
- CONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION 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 3 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