Connecticut · Nonprofit
Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc
Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,318 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW BRITAIN ($124,967). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $19M
What Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc does
Mission
The hospital for special care foundation, inc. Operates exclusively for the benefit of hospital for special care & its affiliates by soliciting & receiving contributions grants, donations, bequests and fundraising. The foundation also accepts, hold, invests, & adminsters any of the above mentioned & makes distributions in furtherance of the mission of the hospital and its affiliates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fundraising programs: hospital for special care foundation, inc.raises funds for the center of special care, inc. And affiliates. Their contributions support patient needs, children and adults with special health needs, and social and recreational needs of patients and the community.
$301,322 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $301,322.
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 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $15M (+30%).
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.
68% of Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
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 narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $22k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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: $169k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Hartford Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 66% · 2019 48% · 2020 44% · 2021 57% · 2022 59% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc'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
56% of Hospital For Special Care Foundation 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 $128k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Hospital For Special Care Foundation 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
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Hospital For Special Care · exempt
- Center of Special Care Inc · exempt
- HSC Community Services Inc · exempt
- CSI Residential Inc · exempt
- Manes and Motions Therapeutic Riding Cen · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hospital For Special Care Foundation 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 Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc?
- Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,318 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW BRITAIN ($124,967). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $292,318 in grants to Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hospital For Special Care Foundation Inc?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW BRITAIN is the largest funder on record, with $124,967 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hospital For Special Care Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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