New Jersey · Nonprofit
CONNECTING THE DOTS INC
CONNECTING THE DOTS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($12,000). 1 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 FY2020
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Connecting the Dots Inc does
Mission
Connecting the dots, inc. Mission is to collaborate with people, educational instututions, community organizations, businesses and service agencies to collectively impact and uplift communities through a common cause.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
The purpose is to connect with information resources and knowledge about how to find and obtain to achieve a higher education level
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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. 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 2018 to 2019, from $29k to $8k (−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.
100% of CONNECTING THE DOTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $6k.
1 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 CONNECTING THE DOTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CONNECTING THE DOTS 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. $12k 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
CONNECTING THE DOTS INC's revenue fell 99% between 2018 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,764 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like CONNECTING THE DOTS 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 CONNECTING THE DOTS 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 CONNECTING THE DOTS INC?
- CONNECTING THE DOTS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($12,000). 1 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 CONNECTING THE DOTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,000 in grants to CONNECTING THE DOTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTING THE DOTS INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTING THE DOTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2018–2020), 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