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CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC
CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,961,835 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($5,038,738). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10.0M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $10.0M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc does
Mission
The connecticut institute for refugees and immigrants, inc. (ciri) is a statewide nonprofit organization that assists refugees and immigrants resolve legal, economic, linguistic and social barriers so that they become self-sufficient, integrated and contributing members of the community. Ciri achieves this mission by providing a compassionate array of high-quality legal, social and educational programming and by promoting cross cultural understanding and decent treatment for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Refugee resettlement & employment services: annually, ciri assists almost 1,850 refugees to resettle and rebuild their lives in the united states. In 2025, this included over 250 afghan parolees and over 550 ukrainian parolees. Refugees and parolees have fled war and persecution in their native countries and in many cases have spent years, even decades, in refugee camps. Ciri staff focuses on meeting the immediate basic needs of new refugees, and assists with employment, housing, school readiness and success in the us education system, accessing health services, and other services so they may thrive in their new communities. Support is provided for up to 5 years from initial resettlement.
$3,430,539 spentof which $883,833 as grants56% of program spendingLegal immigration & citizenship services: ciri's experienced immigration attorneys and representatives, accredited by the department of justice office of legal assistance programs, ensure that immigrants are aware of their legal options and provide representation before u.s. Citizenship & immigration services and the executive office for immigration review. The program offers a wide range of low-cost and free legal services to low-income immigrants which may include family-based immigration, applications for permanent residence, naturalization & citizenship, temporary protected status (tps), legal protections for victims of violence and serious crimes, asylum applications, and representation before the immigration court.
$1,799,834 spentof which $8,872 as grants$1,393,306 earned by the program29% of program spendingProject rescue is a leader in services for survivors of human trafficking, unaccompanied minors, and foreign-born victims of domestic and sexual violence and child abuse within the state of connecticut and raises awareness about the issue of trafficking in persons, caring for unaccompanied minors and addressing challenge for foreign born victims of certain crimes. The program serves trafficking victims through comprehensive case management, immigration legal aid, and referrals to community service providers. In-house services include intensive case management, employment services, immigration legal services, and help with basic needs. In collaboration with social service agencies, legal services, and law enforcement, the program helps survivors gain access to public benefits, therapy, safe housing and the medical care they need to rebuild their lives. Project rescue provides statewide training to service providers and law enforcement on victim identification and outreach to increase public awareness. The program also collaborated with state and national networks to secure safety and resettling of unaccompanied minors in shelter and as they move from shelter to their…
$921,261 spentof which $124,859 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,151,634.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $6.0M (+118%).
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: 2018 41% · 2019 38% · 2020 68% · 2021 67% · 2022 68% · 2023 56% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Susan Schnitzer
President and CEO
Board chair
Robert Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $797k → $1.9M.
20 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 61% · 2019 51% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 55% · 2023 61% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.2M on record — $3.5M federal, $18.7M state.
- Department of Justice$2.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$9.8M
- State Aid Grants$8.9M
- Publications And Music$3k
- Translation & Interpretation$3k
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 INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS 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
88% 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC?
- CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,961,835 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($5,038,738). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $9,961,835 in grants to CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC?
- US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,038,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 85 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