Western Connecticut Area Agency
Waterbury, CT · EIN 06-1182488. Reported 147 grants totalling $21.5M to 39 organizations across tax years 2019-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Western Connecticut Area Agency, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P81Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 45% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 5 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,500. Half of what it reported fell between $11,016 and $46,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $2,088,529. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Opportunities Inc | Waterbury, CT | $9,629,026 | 8 | 6 | 2024 |
| City of Torrington | Torrington, CT | $5,011,749 | 11 | 6 | 2024 |
| Cw Resources Inc | New Britain, CT | $3,020,391 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rw Solutions Inc | New Britain, CT | $662,909 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chore Service Inc | Salisbury, CT | $480,628 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association Naugatuck | Naugatuck, CT | $357,769 | 7 | 6 | 2024 |
| Helping Hands Chore Service Inc | Winsted, CT | $326,733 | 7 | 6 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Legal Services Inc | Middletown, CT | $235,916 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Litchfield Hills Chore Service | Litchfield, CT | $190,074 | 4 | 4 | 2022 |
| The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc | Danbury, CT | $133,345 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury Inc | Waterbury, CT | $127,201 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Independence Northwest Center for Independent Living of Northwest Ct | Naugatuck, CT | $123,300 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Monitor My Health Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $94,475 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut Inc | Quaker Hill, CT | $92,490 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geer Village Housing & Development Company | Canaan, CT | $81,530 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Daybreak at Waterbury | Waterbury, CT | $70,309 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Town of Harwinton | Harwinton, CT | $70,028 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Old Glory Days | Sandy Hook, CT | $68,949 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Family Intervention Center Inc | Waterbury, CT | $63,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Newtown Housing for the Elderly Inc | Newtown, CT | $61,632 | 4 | 4 | 2022 |
| Nce Homecare | Hartford, CT | $60,723 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Wheels Program of Greater New Milford Inc | New Milford, CT | $59,293 | 6 | 6 | 2024 |
| Renewal House Inc | Danbury, CT | $59,022 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Human Resource Development Agency Inc | Naugatuck, CT | $58,091 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Northwestern Ct Transit District | Torrington, CT | $47,088 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Town of New Milford | New Milford, CT | $46,524 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geer Village Dial a Ride | Canaan, CT | $35,607 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Beacon Falls Mini Bus | Beacon Falls, CT | $34,960 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nwct Adult Day Center Inc | Litchfield, CT | $33,503 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Litchfield Hills Adult Day Care LLC | Litchfield, CT | $26,768 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Winsted Senior Center | Winsted, CT | $18,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Fair Housing Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $13,915 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Bethlehem Ct | Bethlehem, CT | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Daybreak of Waterbury | Waterbury, CT | $12,359 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Livewell Alliance Inc | Plantsville, CT | $12,358 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Robert C Geer Memorial Hospital Inc | Canaan, CT | $11,587 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Friends of Newtown Seniors Inc | Newtown, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anns Place Inc | Danbury, CT | $5,718 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geer Woods Inc | Canaan, CT | $5,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
26 of 39 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 6 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- New Opportunities
TRANSPORTATION/IN HOME SERVICES/NUTRITION - New Opportunities Inc
NUTRITION & IN-HOME SERVICES - City of Torrington
TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, SENIOR CENTER & NUTRITION - Rw Solutions Inc
CONGREGATE/ HOME DELIVERED MEALS PROGRAM - Naugatuck YMCA
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH/SUPPORT GROUPS AND RESPITE - Robert C Geer Memorial
GO GEER ON DEMAND TRANSPORTATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 17 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19 | $2,475,541 | $15,000 |
| 2020 | 21 | $2,920,682 | $19,500 |
| 2021 | 22 | $3,741,582 | $19,750 |
| 2022 | 28 | $3,936,602 | $22,400 |
| 2023 | 23 | $4,277,144 | $20,001 |
| 2024 | 34 | $4,114,719 | $19,737 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $19,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Western Connecticut Area Agency's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2019-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 84 Progress Lane 2ND Floor, Waterbury, CT, 06705.
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