Connecticut · Nonprofit
ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC
ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,559,981 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($325,980). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $13M
What St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc does
Mission
The mission of the center is as follows:(a) to operate, oversee, administer, manage and supervise the assets and activities of saint catherine center for special needs, inc. And, including but not limited to, the assets and activities of saint catherine academy in fairfield connecticut;(b) to ensure a multi-disciplinary, structured, relationship-based and individualized programs for individuals with disabilities;(c) to manage and oversee the unified pastoral, spiritual and educational support for individuals with disabilities located within the diocese;(d) to support the religious, charitable, educational, apostolic activities, ministries and catholic mission of the diocese as it relates to people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The center provides programs and resources to support the educational, spiritual and social well-being of individuals with developmental disabilities. Saint catherine academy, one of the programs within the center's structure, is a state approved, special education school with an enrollment of 14 students who have a variety of disabilities. The center also runs an adult day program for the ct department of developmental disabilities with an enrollment of 24 adults.
$2,944,596 spentof which $220,768 as grants$370,845 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,944,596.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.6M to $10M (+86%).
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 45% · 2018 53% · 2019 52% · 2020 67% · 2021 28% · 2022 48% · 2023 62% · 2024 60% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Laura Grozier
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Labella
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $67k → $225k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS 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
ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 31% · 2019 20% · 2020 25% · 2021 35% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% — 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 ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
74% of ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $708k 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.
Organizations like ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation · exempt
- Holy Cross Church · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC?
- ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,559,981 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($325,980). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,559,981 in grants to ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $325,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS 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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing