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THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC
THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,060,741 to it, the largest being E MATILDA ZIEGLER FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND ($3,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 155 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 155 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wheeler Clinic Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Farmington Bank Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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 0% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (20% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $273k → $253k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $45M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Oak Hill Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 27% · 2019 33% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 33% — 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
40% of THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
53% of THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND 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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 42 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wheeler Clinic Incshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Farmington Bank Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 110 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 110 organizations near you
- Southwestern Ct Agency on Aging Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Max Cares Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticutportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental of New Jersey Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibbons Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth M Landon & Harriette M Landonshared fundersCT · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incshared fundersCT · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- The Oak Hill Foundation Inc · exempt
- The Ct Institute for the Blind Inc · exempt
- Easter Seals Connecticut Inc · exempt
- Gilead Community Services Inc · exempt
- Rainbow Housing Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC?
- THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,060,741 to it, the largest being E MATILDA ZIEGLER FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND ($3,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $7,060,741 in grants to THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC?
- E MATILDA ZIEGLER FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 42funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing