Connecticut · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP
VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($92,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $-6545
What Volunteer Square Corp does
Mission
Our mission is to create a connection between our thriving volunteer base and the rising needs of nonprofit organizations to collectively make a greater impact on Connecticut communities
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We continue to build on our successful Professional Development program which helps agencies volunteer cordinators and executive directors stay informed on relevant information which is discussed at monthly meetings. 2) Out high school internship program continues to grow and expand. As volunteer ambassadors in their schools, towns, and peer groups the high school interns are crucial to our organization. They are empowered to create projects they feel strongly about and have demonstrated great leadership skills.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $39k to $14k (−65%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $57k → $12k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP’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
VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 43% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP'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 $48k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP: 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 VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP?
- VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($92,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $139,500 in grants to VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $92,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER SQUARE CORP 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 5 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