Connecticut · Nonprofit
VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC
VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,798 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($244,427). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $671k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Vista Life Innovations Inc does
Mission
Vista provides training, support, and resources that empower individuals with disabilities to achieve personal success and belonging throughout their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Engage program - following graduation from the discover program, the majority of vista students settle along the shoreline in the communities that vista serves, where they become valued and active members of their community as part of vista's engage program, a long-term personalized program offering support for individuals with disabilities in a variety of community-based settings. Members live in the community independently, with housing and employment. Vista life members have access to a variety of services, programs, and support 24 hours a day / 365 days a year. Individualized support for all stages of adult life.
$3,596,927 spent$4,025,841 earned by the program37% of program spendingDiscover program - running 365 days per year, this program provides a college-like experience and features curriculum driven instruction in four core skill areas - cognitive/social, life skills, community involvement and vocational exploration. Instruction is designed to progressively build skills over time with the average student graduating within a 2-5 year window. With over 75 community-based vocational partners, the discover program is designed to provide a student with a wide variety of vocational experiences culminating with paid employment prior to graduation. Graduating students possess the skills needed to live independently in the local community and, through shared experiences, have broadened their peer connections with access to a wide variety of long-term vista programs and all that the local communities have to offer
$2,530,465 spent$2,958,181 earned by the program26% of program spendingDay programs - day programs are geared towards individuals living near the local communities we serve. They are designed for those ready and seeking structured, supported daily activities that promote productivity, friendship, and community involvement. Vista day programs include: connect -provides daily activities in a scheduled routine, structured to fit the needs of each person. Connect through art -visual arts-based day program that takes participants deeper into creative projects and different creative platforms. Drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and other artistic areas are included. New heights is a post-secondary day program located in pawcatuck, ct that offers students the opportunity to grow through experiential learning such as gaining employment while also achieving personal success. The program is designed for neurodiverse young adults aged 17 and up who have demonstrated self-care, medication and behavior management, and decision making skills. The curriculum-driven instruction is provided in five core training areas: vocational training, post-secondary options for training and education, community integration, life skills, cognitive and social behavior.
$2,246,188 spent$2,178,051 earned by the program23% of program spendingVista operates a nonprofit gift shop in downtown madison, connecticut which supports vista operations, employs its members, and is a bridge to community awareness and understanding. There is a wide array of recreation, fitness, and social clubs available to students and members with common interests. On average, students and members can participate in around 15+ activities or clubs each week, which translates to about 30 hours of structured recreational services. Transportation services may be purchased by members for travel to and from vista, work, and programmatic activities within the vista transportation service area, subject to vista transportation policies and limitations. New heights is a post-secondary day program located in pawcatuck, connecticut that offers students the opportunity to grow through experiential learning such as gaining employment while also achieving personal success. Thrive is a program offered to vista members aged 45 and older that provides a four-hour program day focusing on socialization, fostering peer relationships and community involvement.
$1,235,095 spent$878,305 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,608,675.
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 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $23M (+30%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 23% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Helen Bosch
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Christine Chris Picklo Mba
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $13k → $102k.
8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS 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
VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 67% · 2019 51% · 2020 66% · 2021 56% · 2022 63% · 2023 61% — 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
58% of VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS 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
69% of VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $205k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $466k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.4M on record.
- Client Services-General$11.7M
- Board & Care Of Clients$10.7M
- State Aid Grants$3.0M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$1.9M
- Other Structures$93k
- Client Subsidies$29k
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 VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Vista Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
- Vista Advocacy Services Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC?
- VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,798 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($244,427). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $670,798 in grants to VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $244,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS 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 28 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