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GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC

GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,694 to it, the largest being THE WORKPLACE INC ($142,999). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$57M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$267k
Grants received
$52M
Net assets
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 440 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 440 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($51M) Expenses 100 ($52M) Net assets 100 ($55M)2018 Revenue 96 ($49M) Expenses 98 ($51M) Net assets 97 ($53M)2019 Revenue 94 ($48M) Expenses 96 ($50M) Net assets 95 ($52M)2020 Revenue 75 ($38M) Expenses 87 ($45M) Net assets 83 ($45M)2021 Revenue 103 ($53M) Expenses 93 ($48M) Net assets 90 ($49M)2022 Revenue 98 ($50M) Expenses 98 ($51M) Net assets 88 ($48M)2023 Revenue 106 ($54M) Expenses 104 ($54M) Net assets 89 ($49M)2024 Revenue 112 ($57M) Expenses 105 ($54M) Net assets 95 ($52M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (105)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 457 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$632k
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$1.6M
18
$1.6M
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$6.8M
20
$4.6M
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$316k
22
$207k
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$3.1M
24
3.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $113k → $23k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% 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 GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN 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

GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC.

54%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 78% · 2019 82% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66%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.

How long its funders stay

50% of GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

72% of GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

CT
CA
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72.3M on record — $678k federal, $71.6M state.

Federal$678k
grants $678kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$678k
State$71.6M
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Top programs
  • Client Services-General$67.9M
  • Board & Care Of Clients$2.7M
  • Voc. Training-Blind Persons$675k
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$297k
  • Land-Bridge Appr/Rights Of Way$63k
  • Other Settlements-Non-Reprtble$46k

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 GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Helms Housing Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC?
GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,694 to it, the largest being THE WORKPLACE INC ($142,999). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $266,694 in grants to GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT INC?
THE WORKPLACE INC is the largest funder on record, with $142,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOODWILL OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing