Connecticut · Nonprofit
VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER
VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,101 to it, the largest being MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($45,345). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Veterans Strong Community Center does
Mission
Provide veterans with assistance to their needs and direct them to the appropriate agency.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Direct meetings with veterans to provide assistance and guidance
$4,383 spentof which $57,810 as grants36% of program spendingDirect financial aid for veterans basic living needs
$7,683 spentof which $2,500 as grants64% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,066.
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 2022 to 2023, from $49k to $72k (+46%).
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.
99% of VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Donna Dognin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $26k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER’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
VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
68% 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 VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 50% · 2021 53% · 2022 41% · 2023 39% — 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 VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER has grown faster than half of the 3,259 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,259 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER?
- VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,101 to it, the largest being MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($45,345). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $134,101 in grants to VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER?
- MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,345 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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