Connecticut · Nonprofit
Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc
Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,602 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($819,602). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $842k
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc does
Mission
SINA is a partnership between Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford Hospital and Trinity College that works cooperatively with community stakeholders to restore economic vitality and improve the quality of life for the benefit of people who live, work, visit, study and play in the neighborhoods of South Central Hartford.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Development programs housing, real estate economic development including operating 42 Vernon St. Cityscape Apts providing 83 units of low income rental housing, maintenance and carrying cost for other properties held for development, providing funding to subsidiaries developing either low income rental housing or constructing homes for sale to low to moderate income buyers all housing efforts are within the SINA neighborhood, 83 units of low income rentals were rehabilitated to date and 69 houses were developed and sold in the homeownership program, sold undeveloped land to other low income housing developers at discounted costs for their projects, economic development efforts such as cooperative efforts with local businesses to provide holiday lighting, pursue funding for projects, funding safety traffic studies, and involvement in Streetscape improvement projects. Performing follow up activities from our study for increasing economic development in our neighborhood including Anchor Institution concepts practices from around the country with nationally known consultants.
$1,699,099 spent$96,670 earned by the program91% of program spendingEducational and other programs directed toward neighborhood residents including the SINA/Ivan Backer Scholarships and other scholarships awarded to local students attending college, the R.E.A.C.H. Recognition, Education, Achievement and Community Health committee annual banquet at which the Neighborhood Service Awards are presented honoring individuals for their efforts in the improvement of the SINA neighborhood, neighborhood safety programs including facilitating the integration of efforts by the security teams at our member institutions and the Hartford Police and neighborhood cleanup events, provide support for school programs such as the Maria C. Sanchez Familty Fun Night and reading programs, employment programs designed to facilitate employment of neighborhood residents at the SINA institutions providing walk to work employment, managed production of murals celebrating Neighborhood Heroes, operated the Broad Street Art Garden providing opportunity for residents to grow their own food and provide attractive space, administered grants to local organizations for contributors
$106,016 spentof which $16,500 as grants6% of program spendingCommunity public relations programs including organizing and funding meetings, attendance at and sponsorship of events held by other local nonprofits, as well as occasional financial assistance for their programs, public relations consultants fees, strategic planning and various other items such as holiday cards, advertising etc. These programs all relate to building relationships, contacts and working with organizations and individuals for the betterment of the SINA neighborhood. SINA also publishes a newsletter maintains a web site to further advise about the services we provide and the results of our efforts. SINA sometimes provides services, such as accounting or fiduciary assistance to other organizations and our employees and board members or staff often serve as members for other organizations such as
$67,300 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,872,415.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $6.3M to $8.1M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Melvyn Colon
Executive Director
Board chair
Jane Baird
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $502k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sina Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc’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
Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 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
97% of Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance 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 $22k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $820k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $317k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$316k
- Client Subsidies$830
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 Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Pope Park Zion LLC · disregarded
- Urban Preservation I LLC · disregarded
- SINA Properties Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc?
- Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,602 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($819,602). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $841,602 in grants to Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc?
- HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $819,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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