Connecticut · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC
OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,256 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Opportunity Works Connecticut Inc does
Mission
Owc is a non-profit agency that supports people with intellectual and physical disabilities in eastern connecticut. We a committed to providing the best individualized supports to assist everyone to find meaningful vocational activities and/or gainful employment opportunities that fit their personal goals. We work together to foster a sense of respect and dignity which enables our participants to work and live with a quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Day program services- supports approximately 101 adults with intellectual, cognitive and physical disabilities in their journey to live successfully by setiing the standard in providing program excellence, skill training, mentoring and advocacy. This program provides services that aid in positive self image which will foster a sense of respect and dignity for the individuals we serve and enable them to work and live with quality of life.
$3,410,614 spent$3,917,651 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,410,614.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.0M to $2.5M (+29%).
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.
1% of OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Lynn Dwyer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 8 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
OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
92% of OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Against its field
OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC has grown faster than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.0M on record.
- Client Services-General$23.9M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$52k
- Client Subsidies$114
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 OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC?
- OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,256 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $13,256 in grants to OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT INC?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITY WORKS CONNECTICUT 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 8 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