Connecticut · Nonprofit
DOVETAIL SIP INC
DOVETAIL SIP INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,300 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $-338824
What Dovetail Sip Inc does
Mission
The purpose of dovetail is to elevate public interest in social innovation - at the systemic and practice levels - that will improve the wellbeing of residents and their communities. Dovetail achieves this by providing fledgling initiatives with management assistance, impact accountability, public communication and strategic planning. By doing so, it builds support for effective approaches to addressing complex social problems. Dovetail-supported programs directly impact hundreds of stamford residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dovetail: sip, inc. The purpose of dovetail is to elevate public interest in social innovation - at the systemic and practice levels - that will improve the wellbeing of residents and their communities. Dovetail achieves this by providing fledgling initiatives with management assistance, impact accountability, public communication and strategic planning. By doing so, it builds support for effective approaches to addressing complex social problems. Dovetail-supported programs directly impact hundreds of stamford residents.
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The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,806.
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 2023 to 2024, from $151k to $321k (+113%).
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: 2020 4% · 2024 11% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DOVETAIL SIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Vincent Tufo
President/CEO
Board chair
Rich Ostuw
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $26k → $78k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 DOVETAIL SIP 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
DOVETAIL SIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 DOVETAIL SIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of DOVETAIL SIP 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. Of the $58k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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
DOVETAIL SIP INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DOVETAIL SIP 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
22% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Charter Oak Communities · exempt
- Rippowam Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOVETAIL SIP 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 DOVETAIL SIP INC?
- DOVETAIL SIP INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,300 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOVETAIL SIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $148,300 in grants to DOVETAIL SIP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOVETAIL SIP INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 DOVETAIL SIP 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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