Connecticut · Nonprofit
LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES
LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,430,317 to it, the largest being Yale University ($1,233,773). 11 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
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $456k
What Liberty Community Services does
Mission
Liberty Community Services, inc., founded in 1987, strives to end homelessness in greater new haven. We offer services to people who live with hiv/aids, mental illness, and addiction and we help people achieve permanent housing in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Liberty's safe haven program consists of permanent housing, day program services, and intensive case management for people who are homeless with mental illness, substance abuse, and hiv/aids. The number of people housed is 33, the number of people utilizing the day program is 303 annually, and we serve 833 people who are receiving outreach case management services.
$1,155,930 spentof which $1,215,170 as grants$14,851 earned by the program20% of program spendingCannon house - housing and support services are provided for persons living with hiv. This program services approximately 25 individuals annually.
$926,203 spent$5,531 earned by the program16% of program spendingIndependent living program (ilp): ilp consists of +39 psh units in private apartments in the community. It provides psh and rental assistance to subsidize housing for those who have experienced homelessness and are living with hiv.
$1,055,301 spent18% of program spendingOther programs include: liberty scattered site program: psh consists of 37 units in shared suites in a multi-family house. It provides psh and rental assistance to subsidize housing for those who have experienced homelessness. Liberty rapid rehousing program: these include short-term (up to 24 months) with support services and rental assistance to make housing affordable. All of these short-term slots are intended to elevate people to more permanent housing options or into a psh unit within the system. Dedicated to those who previously experienced homelessness and have dual diagnoses: 43 units in the community, at any one timeprevention & diversion services: offering a variety of short-term funds and support to prevent eviction (arrearage/back-rent), we provide security deposits on new housing opportunities, relocation support, and other diversion services. This program serves over 280 individuals per year.case management support services:liberty case management support services only programs includes support services and rental assistance to make housing affordable. Rental assistance provided by outside agencies. All of these provide psh units provided to those who previously…
$2,593,074 spent$203,103 earned by the program45% of program spendingOutreach and support programs that support individuals with mental illness, substance abuse and hiv/aids.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,730,508.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $5.0M (+257%).
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 90% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 91% · 2021 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 88% · 2024 88% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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
Jim Pettinelli
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $275k → $345k.
4 of 16 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.
From the IRS filings of LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 89% · 2019 68% · 2020 74% · 2021 61% · 2022 51% · 2023 61% — 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 LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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 LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.
Government funding LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.9M on record — $16.7M federal, $17.2M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$16.7M
- Client Services-General$10.9M
- State Aid Grants$5.0M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.3M
- Board & Care Of Clients$24k
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 LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Liberty 210 State LLC · disregarded
- 210 State Street LP · partnership
- Liberty Development Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,430,317 to it, the largest being Yale University ($1,233,773). 11 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 LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,430,317 in grants to LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- Yale University is the largest funder on record, with $1,233,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 16 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