Connecticut · Nonprofit
VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC
VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,336,030 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($475,600). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $815k
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $345k
What Voices of September 11 Inc does
Mission
Voices provides long-term support and resources that promote mental health care and wellness, for victims' families, responders, survivors, and families of those who have died of 9/11 related illnesses; and assists communities in preparing for and recovering from tragedy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Voices continues to be true to our nonprofit's founding mission of providing information and support for the 9/11 community and others planning for or responding to traumatic events. Based on a social services continuity of care model, we provide long term support to 9/11 families, responders, and survivors, and offer advice and counsel to other communities planning for or responding to other tragic events. Our lessons learned over these 24+ years has enabled voices to effectively operate in three distinct areas support services, educational programming and trainings. We continue to learn by supporting the 9/11 community of families, survivors and responders over the long term. This know-how is integrated into both our structured educational programming and training curriculum. Voices team fully understands the importance of a victim-centered approach to healing from trauma.
$125,719 spent20% of program spendingIn addition to attracting large numbers of participants from the 9/11 community, voices programs serve as professional learning opportunities for a wide range of individuals such as mental health clinicians, community stakeholders, ngos, and others in support services. Voices hosted its 24th always remember symposium on 9/9/2025 and 9/10/2025, both inperson and live-streamed. More than 1,300 individuals from 27 states and 10 countries participated, and the overall program provided critical information for our target audience the importance of a victim-centered approach in planning and recovering from trauma through collaboration across providers. Voices has provided over 215,000 hours of direct social work support since 2019. Day one of our symposium on 9/9/2025 was devoted to law enforcement while day two on 9/10/2024 was again devoted to specific educational modules for 9/11 community members. All presentations were recorded and posted on the voices website available for anyone to view at no charge. Voices partnered with 9/11 day and americorps and we had individuals attending our symposium help create 500 preparedness backpacks for distribution.
$238,867 spent$211,861 earned by the program38% of program spendingVoices mental health programming continues to include case management, facilitation of focus groups, and virtual support groups utilizing zoom. In 2025, voices provided over 3,050 hours of support group services, workshops and webinars. We made appropriate referrals for more intensive mental health supports as necessary. Our programs help participants learn about key issues and by coming together to do so helps build resilience. We estimate providing over 215,000 hours of direct social work services since 2001. In addition, voices continues to provide educational programming throughout the year, inviting subject matter experts to share their knowledge on topics such as, building resilience, coping with loss & grief, writing as a healing tool, and the latest in ptsd treatments. These workshops, which include breakout groups for participants to process new learning together, form a strong annual curriculum of support that is then archived on our website to be viewed by a wider audience. Peer support groups include survivors, victim's family, responders, bereavement, caregivers, and parents helping parents (php). Php is held in person twice per month for parents that have lost a…
$81,718 spent13% of program spendingOur mission includes helping other communities plan and respond to tragic events. This work is built upon a combination of lessons learned from lived experience, and from a body of research conducted to deepen our expertise on related topics. Research outcomes give us deeper knowledge to offer advice to communities planning for, or healing from, mass violence or terrorism. We continue the process of archiving our years of research, video content, and documents reflecting our advocacy work into the digital resource library. This content of over 5,300 evidence-informed resources is free to access and offers a robust and meaningful history for researchers, clinicians, and others wishing to learn more about any facet of our journey. Voices has formal training now developed which has been presented to a handful of pilot communities near our new canaan, ct office. This training will be expanded in the years ahead. Voices is proud of sharing this expertise as we look ahead to the 25th anniversary of9/11 in 2026.
$182,293 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $628,597.
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.
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 $573k to $227k (−60%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
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.
Board chair
Bonnie Mceneaney Mcnamara
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $120k → $139k.
15 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 83% · 2019 33% · 2020 57% · 2021 34% · 2022 61% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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 VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
58% of VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 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 $562k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $774k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $202k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$200k
- Department of Justice$2k
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 VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 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
79% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC?
- VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,336,030 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($475,600). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,336,030 in grants to VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $475,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 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 41 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