Connecticut · Nonprofit
HOUSE OF BREAD INC
HOUSE OF BREAD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,172,057 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ($366,792). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What House of Bread Inc does
Mission
Provide urban ministry to the economically disadvantaged in the hartford area. Simplicity, dignity and respect are to be characteristics of our services to the hungry, homeless and needy population.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Soup kitchen, day shelter, and kids cafe: provide free meals to the poor and homeless, provide day shelter to the homeless, provide personal counseling and language support. On average, the soup kitchen serves 190 individuals per day and serves approximatley 111,200 meals per year. Kids caf provides a meal to children in local schools and community programs. On average, the kids caf program serves 180 students per school day.
$1,381,751 spent$11,716 earned by the program67% of program spendingEd o'neil house: located at 107 albany avenue and 74 chestnut street, the ed o'neil house offers twenty-seven units of affordable housing. Residents are the working poor and families and/or individuals who are living in transitional housing and preparing to move into permanent housing.
$254,520 spent$155,235 earned by the program12% of program spendingEducation center (673 maple avenue): house of bread provides english for speakers of other languages (esol) classes to immigrants and refugees, helps advocate for their needs, and assists them with navigating all areas of daily life.
$122,005 spent$1,605 earned by the program6% of program spending23 lincoln street: provide long-term housing facility that offers homeless men job training and educational skills to assist them to live independent of support systems: 52,025. Jubilee house: located at 40 clifford street, jubilee house provided english literacy and social integration services to low-income hartford residents, especially immigrants and refugees, in order for them to acquire employment, achieve self-sufficiency within societal networks, sustain independence, and become active citizens. Jubilee house had two principal program areas: esol (english for speakers of other languages) instruction; and the refugee & immigrant assistance program. The building was also home to women transitioning from shelter to independent living: 40,639 88-90 chestnut street: provide shelter for homeless males: 35,106. Additional programs and eductation: 171,794.
$299,564 spent$40,837 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,057,840.
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.
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 $7.1M to $8.0M (+12%).
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 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $148k → $403k.
10 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 HOUSE OF BREAD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
HOUSE OF BREAD INC 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
62% 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 HOUSE OF BREAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 24% · 2019 30% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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 HOUSE OF BREAD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
60% of HOUSE OF BREAD 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 $865k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding HOUSE OF BREAD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- State Aid Grants$100k
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 HOUSE OF BREAD 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sister of St Joseph of Chambery · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSE OF BREAD 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 HOUSE OF BREAD INC?
- HOUSE OF BREAD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,172,057 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ($366,792). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOUSE OF BREAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $2,172,057 in grants to HOUSE OF BREAD INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSE OF BREAD INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $366,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSE OF BREAD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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