Connecticut · Nonprofit
Underground Ne
Underground Ne (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,087 to it, the largest being The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $590k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $99k
What Underground Ne does
Mission
The Underground New England is a faith-based non-profit organization that exists to eradicate human trafficking in Connecticut and New England through awareness prevention and intentional survivor support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
dult Mentor Program: Trained & qualified peer mentors walk alongside adult survivors 18+ of human trafficking and sexual exploitation across the entire state of CT. Mentors help survivors rebuild their lives by providing community based comprehensive services including intensive case management housing navigation victim advocacy basic needs provision peer services psycho-education life skills training job coaching and community support. Staff also provide information & referrals emergency housing and crisis case management. In 2025 we served 54 individuals and 14 dependents enrolled 35 in long-term services in AMP and provided over 860 hours of mentoring and case management. 2 individuals completed the program. We provided 244 nights of emergency housing and helped 25 individuals achieve safe housing within 6 months of referral. 21 individuals were assisted with exiting exploitative situations emergency support was provided at the point of crisis and stabilizing services were initiated. 100% of AMP participants obtained food clothing and mental and physical healthcare. 100% of participants accessed a safe and supporting community; 88% of clients increased their income; 83%…
$0 spentAwareness and Prevention: Conducted 24 awareness and prevention events with a combined 2500 participants with a focus on educating and training communities and partner agencies in anti-human trafficking prevention including how to recognize the signs indicators and red flags of human trafficking. Participants also learned how to support survivors in the process of exiting trafficking and building recovery.
$0 spentNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spentOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $161k to $114k (−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: 2023 2% · 2024 30% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Underground Ne’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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
Nadine Thomas
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $52k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Underground Ne’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
Underground Ne leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Underground Ne.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of Underground Ne's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Underground Ne has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Underground Ne receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $440k on record.
- Department of Justice$440k
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 Underground Ne
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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Underground Ne: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Underground Ne?
- Underground Ne (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,087 to it, the largest being The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Underground Ne have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $204,087 in grants to Underground Ne, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Underground Ne?
- The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Underground Ne 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 11 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