Connecticut · Nonprofit
Families Network of Western CT Inc
Families Network of Western CT Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,484 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($160,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $536k
What Families Network of Western CT Inc does
Mission
The organization's program services focus on child abuse prevention through parent education and support to avoid the occurence of crisis in the home. These services are accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of educational and supportive services to families and child care providers including child developmental screenings, home visitations, and linkage to community resources. This programming fosters healthy family relationships, improves health and other childhood outcomes, reduces the risk of abuse and neglect, and prepares children for productive lives. Current programs include parenting groups, healthy families america home visiting program, parents as teachers home visiting program, infant injury prevention and health promotion project, fatherhood initiative/father's groups, parent leadership training, and alumni support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides a comprehensive array of services to families including, but not limited to, community education, early identification of overburdened families, parenting education, supportive services for new families, child development screenings, home visitation and access to appropriate community resources in order to enable healthy family relationships, improve child development and health, reduce risk of abuse and neglect and prepare children for healthy, responsible productive lives. FNWC collaborates with community organizations located in the greater Danbury, Connecticut area that provide family support programs in order to best utilize scarce community resources.
$837,703 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $837,703.
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 $426k to $612k (+44%).
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 32% · 2018 35% · 2019 37% · 2022 84% · 2023 87% · 2024 91% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Families Network of Western CT Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Joan Magner
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $0 → $96k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Families Network of Western CT Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
Families Network of Western CT Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% 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 Families Network of Western CT Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 91% · 2021 29% · 2022 45% · 2023 36% — 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
50% of Families Network of Western CT Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
Families Network of Western CT Inc draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Families Network of Western CT Inc runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like Families Network of Western CT 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
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 Families Network of Western CT 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 Families Network of Western CT Inc?
- Families Network of Western CT Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,484 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($160,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Families Network of Western CT Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $511,484 in grants to Families Network of Western CT Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Families Network of Western CT Inc?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Families Network of Western CT 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 12 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