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CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC

CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,016 to it, the largest being Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$399k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$66k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Create Independence Inc does

Mission

Creating opportunities and supporting individuals with varying abilities to achieve success in the skills of everyday living.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

  1. Creating opportunities and supporting individuals with varying abilities to achieve success in the skills of everyday living.

    $278,080 spent$398,803 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $278,080.

02The organization over time

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

Deanne Anderson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CREATE INDEPENDENCE 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

CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.

State$9k
24
26
Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$5k
  • Client Services-General$3k
  • Client Subsidies$990

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 CREATE INDEPENDENCE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
40%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATE INDEPENDENCE 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 CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC?
CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,016 to it, the largest being Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,016 in grants to CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC.
Who is the largest funder of CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC?
Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CREATE INDEPENDENCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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