Connecticut · Nonprofit
CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY
CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,681 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $257k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Connecticut Center for Patient Safety does
Mission
The Connecticut Center for Patient Safety works to promote patient safety, improve the quality of health care and protect the rights of patients. Quality health care is a right.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education to Professionals -provide education to health professionals, participate as a patient voice on panels, committees and national organizations. We put a face on the patient experience. Work to form partnerships to improve patient outcomes. Produces data, information and analysis pertaining to the extent, type and source of hospital infections and pharmaceuticals in Connecticut
$36,974 spentof which $53,089 as grants71% of program spendingPublic Education- raise public awareness and provide factual information to the public and members. Educate consumers/patients on patient engagement and what they need to know and do as informed consumers. During the year, we hold educational sessions, build relationships with legislative, advocacy and business organizations. Maintain our websites. Work to form partnerships to improve patient outcomes.
$15,044 spentof which $16,131 as grants29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,018.
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.
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 $83k to $75k (−9%).
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.
100% of CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lisa Freeman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $28k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY’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 CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 55% · 2019 67% · 2020 57% · 2021 77% · 2022 99% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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
CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY
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.
Public support
100%
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 CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY: 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 CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY?
- CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,681 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $256,681 in grants to CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 6 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