Connecticut · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC
DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,884 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $615k
What Disability Rights Connecticut Inc does
Mission
Disability rights connecticut, inc.'s (drct) mission is to advocate, educate, investigate and pursue legal, administrative, and other appropriate remedies to advance and protect the civil rights of individuals with disabilities to participate equally and fully in all facets of community life in connecticut.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Disability rights connecticut, inc. (drct) is a private and independent nonprofit organization designated by the governor to be connecticut's protection and advocacy system. Drct is a statewide organization largely funded by federal entities and authorized by the developmental disabilities assistance and bill of rights act, the protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness act, the protection and advocacy for individual rights act, and other protection and advocacy acts and their respective implementing regulations. Consistent with its federal mandates and priorities, drct is responsible for carrying out a variety of activities to protect the civil and human rights of people with disabilities including information and referral, technical assistance, and legal and other advocacy. Drct staff investigate abuse and neglect, monitor facilities, empower people with disabilities and educate policymakers.
$1,602,750 spent$215,847 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,602,750.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $229k (−83%).
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 99% · 2018 94% · 2019 92% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 99% · 2024 88% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Tobey Partch Davies
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13 → $45k.
1 of 4 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.4M on record — $17.3M federal, $175k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.8M
- Social Security Administration$3.3M
- Department of Education$3.2M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$170k
- Conf/Seminars/Workshop-Hosting$5k
- General Office Supplies$127
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 DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,884 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $90,884 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC?
- NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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