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Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge
Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge (Connecticut) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($207,017). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $286k
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $696k
- Net assets
- $-1200634
What Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of CT Challenge (DBA Mission, Your Mission CT Challenge) is to equip cancer survivors with the game-changing exercise, nutrition and mind-body knowledge, tools, community and mindset needed to reclaim and rebuild their lives after diagnoses and treatment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education & digital wellness: Mission is committed to raising awareness and advancing skill sets needed to move survivors beyond cancer. Through our digital platforms fueled by advanced SEO strategies, we put the exercise, nutrition, mind-body health and community-building support programs incubated at the mission training center within reach of any survivor in need of them, regardless of where they live.
$135,629 spent40% of program spendingGeneral programs for the Connecticut Challenge.
$204,081 spent60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $339,710.
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 2023 to 2024, from $317k to $93k (−71%).
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: 2020 25% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
114% of Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Jeffrey Keith
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $101k → $33k.
9 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 43% · 2019 21% · 2020 32% · 2021 30% · 2022 37% · 2023 46% — 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
19% of Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge'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
73% of Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $341k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge's revenue fell 86% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: 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 Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge?
- Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge (Connecticut) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($207,017). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $696,145 in grants to Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $207,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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