Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE CONNECTION FUND INC
THE CONNECTION FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,839 to it, the largest being Joey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc ($122,839). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Thomas Atkins Meml Fd Tr Uwlocalportfolio match
- The Connecticut Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Dale Jr Foundationshared funders
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.
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 2% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $63k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of THE CONNECTION FUND 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
THE CONNECTION FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 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
THE CONNECTION FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Thomas Atkins Meml Fd Tr Uwlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Connecticut Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Dale Jr Foundationshared fundersNC · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- The Connecticut Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Greater New Britainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmington Bank Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sbm Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Health Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding THE CONNECTION FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $731k on record — $200k federal, $531k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$200k
- Client Subsidies$525k
- Educ & Training For Employees$5k
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 THE CONNECTION FUND 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
44% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- The Connection Inc · exempt
- The Connection Fund Realty · exempt
- The Connection Inc Employees · exempt
- The Connection Fund Jefferson Inc · exempt
- The Connection Fund Liberty Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CONNECTION FUND 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 CONNECTION FUND INC?
- THE CONNECTION FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,839 to it, the largest being Joey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc ($122,839). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CONNECTION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $123,839 in grants to THE CONNECTION FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CONNECTION FUND INC?
- Joey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $122,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CONNECTION FUND 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 2funders 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