Connecticut · Nonprofit
Hospital For Special Care
Hospital For Special Care (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,766,594 to it, the largest being MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ($473,725). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $132M
What Hospital For Special Care does
Mission
Hospital for Special Care is a 236-Bed Rehabilitation and Chronic Disease hospital, serving patients in these primary areas: Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Inpatient Care: Rehabilitation Services include programs for those recovering from a life-threatening condition, debilitating injury or suffering from acute chronic illness. HSC provides interdisciplinary care for patients with amputations, neurological conditions, orthopedic diagnoses, musculoskeletal diagnoses, multiple trauma, and complications from prolonged hospitalizations. Complex medical and rehabilitation care provide a wide range of services designed to maximize the outcomes of patients who no longer need invasive or acute diagnostic procedures, but who continue to require 24-hour nursing and medical care and/or monitoring. We also provide comprehensive care for individuals who require complex wound management. HSC treats all levels of spinal cord dysfunction. Through its continuum of care and interdisciplinary therapies to pain management and community re-entry. A comprehensive treatment plan is tailored to each individual by a dedicated rehabilitation team led by the Medical Director. The Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) program treats individuals with traumatic brain injuries (i.e. aneurysm, anoxia, tumors) with the goal to maximize patients functional status,…
$30,137,616 spent$39,081,640 earned by the program26% of program spendingInpatient Care: Respiratory Services include caring for people who have made conscious decisions to live on life support. These patients require significant medical attention along with services to enhance quality of life. Our goal is to liberate patients from ventilator dependency so that they can resume their lives. The hospital for special care is recognized for having the highest ventilator-weaning rate in Connecticut and consistently exceeds the national average. Services for the clinical management of patients with serious respiratory conditions are provided on three distinct units. HSC's 48-bed Laurie Coleman Puglisi respiratory care unit and the 38-bed respiratory step-down unit provide care for patients with multi-system problems and ventilator assistance (Patient Days - 29,684).
$24,974,091 spent$44,248,827 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation Outpatient Center is designed to meet the needs of patients that require assistance but do not require hospitalization. Whether from illness, surgery or injury, therapy may be needed to improve muscle strength, coordination and mobility. The Center offers a comprehensive team approach provided by our highly-skilled physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists. Outpatient Programs include Aquatic Therapy, Autism Services, Body Weight Support Elliptical Trainer, Physical Therapy, Psychology and Neuropsychology Services, Occupational Therapy, Orthotics Program, Pulmonary Rehab, Speech Therapy, Swallowing Disorders Center, and Neuromuscular Clinic including Parkinson's Clinic (Visits - 56,425).
$19,505,590 spent$11,678,709 earned by the program17% of program spendingInpatient Care: Satellite Unit / Hartford location is a 25-bed unit located within the walls of the north campus of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. The Satellite Unit is specifically for patients needing comprehensive wound management, ventilator-weaning, complex respiratory care, or management of complex medical issues (Patient Days - 8,740).
$16,506,106 spent$11,312,652 earned by the program14% of program spendingInpatient Autism Services: This is a 20-bed program for individuals ages 10 to 21 experiencing the most acute complex Autism Spectrum Disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders (Patient Days - 6,742).
$12,870,378 spent$12,219,896 earned by the program11% of program spendingInpatient Care: Pediatric Services is a 29-bed pediatric unit that provides care to children (from newborn to 18 years of age), in need of rehabilitation following an accident, surgery, serious illness, or premature birth, many of whom are technology dependent. HFSC offers programs and services tailored to each child's individual needs to help regain lost skills or develop brand new skills. The ultimate goal is to provide a bridge between acute care and a home setting. (Patient Days - 8,456).
$11,738,780 spent$12,923,738 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,732,561.
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 2023 to 2024, from $170M to $181M (+7%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of Hospital For Special Care’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Lynn Ricci FACHE
President & CEO
Board chair
Diane R Chace Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $132k → $224k.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.7M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Hospital For Special Care raised.
From the IRS filings of Hospital For Special Care’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Hospital For Special Care has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 Hospital For Special Care.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 26% · 2019 29% · 2020 33% · 2021 40% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — 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
45% of Hospital For Special Care's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
Hospital For Special Care draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $592k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Hospital For Special Care is better cushioned than half of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Hospital For Special Care receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.8M on record.
- CT$13.8M
- MA$300
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 Hospital For Special Care
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Hospital for Special Care Foundation Inc · exempt
- Center of Special Care Inc · exempt
- HSC Community Services Inc · exempt
- CSI Residential Inc · exempt
- Manes & Motions Therapeutic Riding Ctr · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hospital For Special Care: 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 Hospital For Special Care?
- Hospital For Special Care (Connecticut) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,766,594 to it, the largest being MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ($473,725). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hospital For Special Care have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,766,594 in grants to Hospital For Special Care, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hospital For Special Care?
- MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $473,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hospital For Special Care 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 39 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