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Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc
Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $0
What Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc does
Mission
Clinical educational program at UCONN law school providing non-litigation legal services to nonprofits engaged in urban renewal in Connecticut's cities.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
The program provides free or low cost direct legal services to a wide range of nonprofit organizations in Connecticut, primarily in urban centers, and offers governance training, basic education about the nonprofit application process, and addresses a wide range of legal needs, from corporate tax and real estate to contracts, leases, mergers and dissolution.
$61,953 spentof which $67,888 as grants33% of program spendingThe program provides direct legal services at a reduced rate to several housing authorities, in connection with their ongoing corporate and regulatory compliance, real estate development projects, general procurement and other matters. Other paying clients include nonprofit community development corporations engaged in significant real estate development transactions, where CULI collects fees upon successful conclusion of the transaction (sometimes spanning several years).
$61,953 spent33% of program spendingThe program provides several services to the University of Connecticut School of Law including a clinical education program for 2nd and 3rd year law students, who work closely with CULI staff attorneys to provide direct legal services.
$61,952 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $185,858.
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 2021 to 2022, from $222k to $0 (−100%).
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 38% · 2018 62% · 2019 48% · 2020 54% · 2021 64% · 2022 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Willajeanne McLean
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Urban Legal Initiative 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 Urban Legal Initiative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
100% 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 Urban Legal Initiative Inc.
“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 Urban Legal Initiative Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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 Urban Legal Initiative Inc's revenue fell 61% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,421 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Urban Legal Initiative 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 Urban Legal Initiative Inc?
- Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative Inc?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 2 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