Connecticut · Nonprofit
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,629,540 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ($14,148,440). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Domestic Violence Crisis Center does
Mission
DVCC's role is to help those experiencing any level of domestic violence and assist them in building a safer environment for the well-being of themselves and their families. Our services include housing and financial advocacy, legal advocacy, trauma-informed individual and group counseling, and emergency safe housing. All victim services are free and confidential, and all services offered are multicultural/multilingual.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe HousingDVCC provides emergency, temporary safe housing for domestic violence victims and their children. Residents in our two safe houses (Stamford and Norwalk) are provided with meals, clothing, other basic needs, safety planning, and transportation. Additionally, the full range of our victim services is available to residents of our safe houses.
$1,189,213 spent39% of program spendingLegal Advocacy Legal advocates work with victims on civil and criminal matters within the court system. Legal advocacy includes helping victims obtain orders of protection. Legal Advocates are present at arraignments and domestic violence criminal hearings to advocate for victims. In addition, they provide one-on-one legal consultations to assist victims with family legal issues, including child support, custody, alimony, and divorce.
$839,446 spent27% of program spendingCounseling DVCC offers shortterm individual counseling with survivors of domestic violence to help them understand the effects of trauma, identify options and goals, and develop safety plans. In addition, we offer group counseling which fosters a supportive environment that helps to lessen feelings of isolation Child Counseling DVCC has a dedicated, full-time youth and family counselor on staff to provide one-on-one counseling, parent/child counseling, and age-appropriate support groups for children as secondary victims of domestic violence. The counselor also works with young adults as primary victims of domestic violence.
$454,699 spent15% of program spendingHousing & Financial Advocacy DVCC'S housing and financial advocates work with victims to connect them with housing resources and to help them find safe, affordable, permanent housing. In addition, advocates work alongside victims to create financial wellness and safety plans. Services include repairing damaged or low credit scores, budgeting education, building resumes and strengthening job-seeking skills.
$384,744 spent12% of program spendingPreventive Education Youth preventive education programs provide tools for youth to help them learn how to maintain healthy relationships and solve conflicts peacefully. These programs provide education and increase awareness of domestic violence and its impact on our communities.
$209,863 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,077,965.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $3.1M (+33%).
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 75% · 2018 80% · 2019 73% · 2020 66% · 2021 63% · 2022 58% · 2023 60% · 2024 67% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Board chair
Janill Sharma
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.0M.
11 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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.
How concentrated its funding is
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 90% · 2019 88% · 2020 83% · 2021 80% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
54% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $990k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.7M
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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gws · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER?
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,629,540 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ($14,148,440). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $16,629,540 in grants to DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER?
- CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,148,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER 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 71 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