About Connecticut Project
The Connecticut Project brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity and improve systems for people who are lower-income or asset-limited, with the goal of creating a just, thriving Connecticut where race, gender, income, geography, and other circumstances no longer predetermine opportunity.
Focus Areas
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) outreachchild care access and quality / early childhood educationaffordable housing and tenant protectionseconomic opportunity and financial stabilitypublic service loan forgiveness / student debt reliefcivic engagement and democracy
Who They Fund
family child care providers and early childhood workforcelow-income renters and voucher-eligible householdsjustice-involved / re-entering individualsimmigrant communities
About Connecticut Project
The Connecticut Project Inc centers its grantmaking on Connecticut systems that shape daily life for low-income and asset-limited residents. In 2025, its largest recent grant went to Local Initiatives Support Corporation for a predevelopment loan fund program, including initial capital and staffing capacity, pointing to a strategy that pairs money with implementation support. Other major awards show the same pattern: Yale Transitions Clinic received support for implementation of Connecticut’s waiver for re-entry Medicaid enrollment, and All Our Kin received funding to expand direct service support to family child care providers. The foundation’s recent work reaches across housing, early childhood, workforce, public benefits, and civic participation. It funds policy and coalition work as well as organizational capacity, with recurring support for data infrastructure, advocacy, and pilots that test state-level solutions. Several grants are tied to statewide implementation efforts rather than short-term projects, including housing voucher policy, child care coordination, and public benefits access. The result is a portfolio aimed at systems change inside Connecticut, not a broad national grantmaking footprint.
What Connecticut Project Funds
Housing is one of the clearest through lines in The Connecticut Project Inc’s recent awards. It gave $325,000 to Partnership for Strong Communities for a state rental assistance voucher program research and advocacy project, and $320,000 to The Housing Collective for the Center for Housing Opportunity in Eastern Connecticut. Early childhood and child care are another major focus. The foundation awarded $300,000 to Connecticut Network for Children and Youth for organizing capacity building support to Child Care for Connecticut’s Future, and $300,000 to Social Venture Partners Connecticut for a blue ribbon panel on childcare coordination and implementation. Its workforce and economic mobility work includes $370,000 to Jobs for the Future for data capacity and a quality jobs framework. It also supported economic security work through a $225,000 grant to United Way of Connecticut Inc for child tax credit coalition support.
How Connecticut Project Gives
Typical grant size is mid-five figures to low-six figures, with a p25 of $50,000, median of $130,000, and p75 of $237,500. Recent awards cluster around planning, capacity building, implementation, and advocacy rather than only direct service. Several organizations appear more than once across 2024 and 2025, including Partnership for Strong Communities, The Connecticut Project Action Fund Inc, A Better Way Foundation, Yale University Tobin Center for Economic Policy, and Connecticut Network for Children and Youth, showing recurring relationships. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$10.4M
Total Assets
$5.1M
Total Revenue
$785K
Total Expenses
$19.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $50K and $238K, with a median of $130K.
25th Percentile
$50K
Median
$130K
75th Percentile
$238K
Geographic Reach
Local2 states funded
About 95% of grants go to recipients in CT.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
GARTH HARRIES
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