Connecticut · Nonprofit
CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC
CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,800 to it, the largest being THE TRICO FOUNDATION ($11,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC's revenue fell 19% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,109 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inclocal
- The Maisie Foundation Incportfolio match
- The John T and Jane a Wiederhold Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
36% of CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS 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 VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — 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
CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Greater Hartford Arts Council InclocalCT · funds 76 organizations near you
- The Maisie Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John T and Jane a Wiederhold Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Irving and Phyllis Millstein Foundation for Animal Welfare Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Valley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Animal Legal Defense Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce M Englund Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Powell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michele & Agnese Cestone Foundation Inc - C/O Bank of America Private Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- CT for Animals Education Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC?
- CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,800 to it, the largest being THE TRICO FOUNDATION ($11,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,800 in grants to CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS INC?
- THE TRICO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT VOTES FOR ANIMALS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing