Connecticut · Nonprofit
Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated
Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,833 to it, the largest being JMS FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $586k
What Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated does
Mission
The Organization provides wide ranging support for families whose children receive special education services or those who suspect their child may have a disability, and provides important advocacy to improve special education outcomes in the state of Connecticut. Services include one on one consultation for parents facing challenges navigating the special education system (in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, and other languages using a language line), mentoring and support for youth with disabilities, training sessions for families and professionals in the field of special education, and substantial consultation with state and local education professionals to improve special education systems in the state.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Connecticut parent advocacy center, inc. (cpac) is a statewide nonprofit organization that offers information and support to families of children with any disability or chronic illness, from birth through age 26. Cpac knows that parents must be the most effective advocates for their children. We are committed to empower them and give them confidence that knowledge and understanding that special education law and its procedures can bring. Through outreach efforts and referrals from schools, social service agencies and other parents, the number of families that cpac serves has grown dramatically over the past 43 years. The organization continues to take pride in providing prompt and personal assisstance to all who contact them. Cpac is staffed by parents of children with disabilities who have trained in, and have personal experience with the law and disability issues.
$1,145,883 spent$695,120 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,145,883.
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 $2.0M to $1.1M (−46%).
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 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 84% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $58.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated’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 Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
97% of Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $283 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.
Against its field
Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record — $2.0M federal, $3.6M state.
- Department of Education$2.0M
- Educational Services$3.0M
- Management Consultant Services$611k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$7k
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 Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated: 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 Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated?
- Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,833 to it, the largest being JMS FOUNDATION INC ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,833 in grants to Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated?
- JMS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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