Connecticut · Nonprofit
MY SISTERS' PLACE INC
MY SISTERS' PLACE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,666,960 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($2,432,210). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $16M
What My Sisters' Place Inc does
Mission
My sisters place is committed to ending homelessness by empowering women, families, and others in greater hartford to achieve independence and stability in their community by providing housing and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Affordable housing: 1. Mary seymour place apartments, located in hartford,provides single men or women affordable rental apartments. Tenants hold their own leases. Units are leased to low and moderate income tenants. There are 30 onebedroom apartments onsite,as well as voluntary case management and referral/advocacy programs available. 2. The sue ann shay place apartments consist of 34 affordable one, two and three bedroom rental apartments for women and their families located in hartford, ct. Units are leased to low and moderate income tenants. Tenants hold their own leases. Voluntary case management and referral/advocacy programs are also available onsite. 3. The beaumont lofts, a 24 -unit apartment affordable and supportive housing complex for both families and single individuals, provides voluntary case management and referral/advocacy programs. Units are leased to low and moderate income tenants.
$2,117,604 spent54% of program spendingSupportive housing programs: my sisters' place provides supportive housing for low income individuals and families who were formerly homeless and unable to hold their own lease. Through the mary seymour place apartments and sue ann shay place apartments and the beaumont lofts, msp provides housing and support services for those who meet one or more of the following criteria: low income, living with a mental illness, and/or currently homeless. Security deposit programs - msp operates a few different programs providing limited financial assistance such as security deposits, first month's rent, security deposit guarantees and sometimes small rental arrears to households who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Available funding varies and specifies what households may be served and what expenses can be covered. The hartford foundation for public giving, the hartford and the first congregational church of vernon have been long-time supporters of these programs. Last year, a total of 220 individuals were served through the rental assistance programs. Housing mobility program - assists 100 individuals and families with housing subsidies to move from areas of low opportunity (usually…
$1,280,008 spentof which $219,416 as grants32% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing: permanent supportive housing (psh) integrates permanent, affordable rental housing throughout the hartford area with the best practice community based supportive services needed to help people who are homeless and/or have serious and longterm disabilities such as mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, substance use disorders, and chronic health conditions access and maintain stable housing in the community.
$391,523 spentof which $269,541 as grants10% of program spendingYouth program children with histories of homelessness experience difficulties related to their time being homeless. More than 40% of those children exhibit serious emotional and behavioral problems. By age 8, more than 75% of those children have mental health concerns that affect their level of social/emotional and academic functioning. Children who are homeless are at increased risk of being homeless as adults. We focus our efforts on children in this program to help break the cycle of homelessness. This program is offered to all children, from birth to age eighteen enrolled in our permanent supportive housing programs, including those at sue ann shay and at scattered sites. The program provides case management services for both parent and child, provides advocacy at ppt school meetings, and provides school uniforms and shoes, book bags and supplies to all school aged children. Other services provided include after school tutoring, reading with therapy dogs, arts and crafts, gardening and cooking, imagination, and open play as well as educational field trips. Generally, the children who participate in the youth program -on-going improvement and progress for each participant in…
$153,292 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,942,427.
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 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $24M (+58%).
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 47% · 2018 47% · 2019 44% · 2020 48% · 2021 50% · 2022 51% · 2023 51% · 2024 77% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kara A Capone
CEO
Board chair
Diane Bengston
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $464k → $227k.
11 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MY SISTERS' PLACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
MY SISTERS' PLACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 MY SISTERS' PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 73% · 2019 78% · 2020 75% · 2021 59% · 2022 86% · 2023 47% — 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
48% of MY SISTERS' PLACE 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
77% of MY SISTERS' PLACE 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 $860k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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 MY SISTERS' PLACE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.9M on record — $2.8M federal, $19.0M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.8M
- Client Services-General$13.1M
- State Aid Grants$3.5M
- Client Subsidies$1.8M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$600k
- Board & Care Of Clients$85k
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 MY SISTERS' PLACE INC
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 5 related entities
- Msp Housing II LLC · disregarded
- Sue Ann Shay LLC · disregarded
- 102 Pliny Street LLC · disregarded
- Mercy Housing and Shelter · exempt
- Community Housing Advocates Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC?
- MY SISTERS' PLACE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,666,960 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($2,432,210). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MY SISTERS' PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,666,960 in grants to MY SISTERS' PLACE INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MY SISTERS' PLACE INC?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $2,432,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MY SISTERS' PLACE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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