Connecticut · Nonprofit
WHEELER CLINIC INC
WHEELER CLINIC INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,082,440 to it, the largest being THE CONNECTION INC ($2,006,284). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $113M
What Wheeler Clinic Inc does
Mission
Wheeler clinic, inc. Provides equitable access to innovative care that improves health, recovery and growth at all stages of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health and wellness . . . As a federally qualified health center wheeler offers integrated primary care, behavioral health preventive dental and support services to medically-underserved, low-income and vulnerable populations in bristol, hartford, waterbury, plainville, new britain and surrounding towns.
$31,134,399 spent$33,884,071 earned by the program41% of program spendingChildren's outpatient & community-based services. . . Provides a continuum of crisis, outpatient, day treatment and intensive in-home programs and services for children and families involved the departments of children and families and developmental services as well as youth involved in the juvenile courts. Our home-like environment for children with behavioral health challenges and child who have been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect. Services are provided in clinic facilities in bristol, hartford, middletown, new haven, plainville and waterbury as well as in homes, schools and communities in all or part of hartford, fairfield, litchfield, middlesex, new haven and tolland counties.
$14,871,023 spent$2,490,173 earned by the program20% of program spendingCommunity-based family services . . . Provide family strengthening, intensive in-home, therapeutic foster care, and juvenile risk reduction intervention services to children and families involved in child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The department also includes an innovative primary care/behavioral health integration program, and practice innovation projects initiatives. Services are provided in hartford, new britain, plainville and waterbury as well as in community settings throughout the greater hartford, new britain/bristol and waterbury communities.
$9,135,531 spentof which $624,299 as grants$6,539 earned by the program12% of program spendingChildren's educational services . . . Include academic and clinical supports for children and adolescents with serious behavior challenges who are referred by public schools from 50 towns.
$7,101,197 spent$9,231,748 earned by the program9% of program spendingAdult services . . . Provides a broad range of intervention, recovery and recidivism reduction programs for individuals involved with justice system, as well as behavioral health supports for the community. These services are provided in facilities in bristol, hartford, middletown, meriden, new britain, plainville and waterbury as well as in state facilities.
$5,802,051 spent$125,434 earned by the program8% of program spendingEarly childhood and evaluation services . . . Includes state and federally funded programs that support young children, parents/caregivers and early childhood educators in homes schools and communities.
$3,311,711 spentof which $377,480 as grants$774,990 earned by the program4% of program spendingConnecticut center for prevention, wellness and recovery . . . Is the state's most comprehensive resource for behavioral health information and a leading provider of professional training and development opportunities, and prevention and health promotion services statewide. The department includes the wheeler employee assistance program.
$4,267,377 spentof which $455,465 as grants$360,270 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,623,289.
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 2023 to 2024, from $119M to $135M (+14%).
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: 2017 54% · 2018 54% · 2019 54% · 2020 56% · 2021 49% · 2022 49% · 2023 53% · 2024 52% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of WHEELER CLINIC INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sabrina Trocchi
President and CEO
Board chair
Mary C Rodier
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $708k → $336k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 WHEELER CLINIC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
WHEELER CLINIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 WHEELER CLINIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 39% · 2019 75% · 2020 58% · 2021 54% · 2022 38% · 2023 35% — 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
38% of WHEELER CLINIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
74% of WHEELER CLINIC INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WHEELER CLINIC INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding WHEELER CLINIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $370.2M on record — $37.6M federal, $332.7M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$37.6M
- CT$332.0M
- MA$614k
- FL$84
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 WHEELER CLINIC 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
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wheeler Hope Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHEELER CLINIC 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 WHEELER CLINIC INC?
- WHEELER CLINIC INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,082,440 to it, the largest being THE CONNECTION INC ($2,006,284). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHEELER CLINIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $5,082,440 in grants to WHEELER CLINIC INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHEELER CLINIC INC?
- THE CONNECTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,006,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHEELER CLINIC 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.
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 34 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