Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$27,745,120

Total expenses

$22,854,880

Contributions and grants received

$19,775,438

Grants paid

$21,574,393

Program service revenue

$7,109,195

Investment income

$292,276

Other revenue

$568,211

Total assets, end of year

$21,395,002

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,226,469

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$18,168,533

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$21,917,615

Management and general expenses

$937,265

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$21,917,615

Program services were 95.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• COURT FEES GRANTS-IN-AID AND JUDICIAL BRANCH GRANT FOR CIVIL LEGAL REPRESENTATION - IN EFFORT TO REPLACE DRASTICALLY REDUCED IOLTA/IOTA REVENUE, THE CONNECTICUT STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED CERTAIN COURT FEE INCREASES EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2009, JULY 1, 2012, JULY 1, 2014, AND JULY 1, 2016. UNDER THE COURT FEES GRANTS-IN-AID PROGRAM, THE JUDICIAL BRANCH TRANSFERS THE REVENUE FROM THE FEE INCREASES TO THE CBF, WHICH DISTRIBUES THE FUNDS PURSUANT TO SECTION 51-81C OF THE CONNECTICUT GENERAL STATUTES TO CURRENT IOLTA/IOTA GRANTEES FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNDING THE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES TO CONNECICUT'S LOW-INCOME POPULATION. LEGISLATION ENACTED IN 2016 ADDED THE CLIENT SECURITY FUND AS A POTENTIAL NEW FUNDING SOURCE, AND FUNDING WAS MADE AVAILABLE FROM THIS SOURCE FROM JULY 2021 THROUGH JUNE 2023. THE CBF BECAME THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR A STATE FUNDED RIGHT TO COUNSEL FOR RESTRAINING ORDER PROGRAM FOR INCOME ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND PROVIDED THE FIRST GRANTS TO THREE LEGAL AID ORGANIZATIONS IN 2022. THE CBF WAS NAMED AS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF A STATE-WIDE RIGHT TO COUNSEL FOR EVICTION PROGRAM AND MADE GRANTS AVAILABLE TO FIVE LEGAL AID PROVIDERS IN 2022.

  Expenses $21,328,557 · Grants $21,328,557

• THE INTEREST ON LAWYERS' TRUST ACCOUNTS (IOLTA) AND INTEREST ON TRUST ACCOUNTS (IOTA)-- THE PROGRAM FUNDS LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR AND LAW SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS BASED ON FINANCIAL NEED. THE PROGRAM FUNDED ELEVEN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR, AND GRANTS FOR LAW SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS TO THE THREE CONNECTICUT LAW SCHOOLS. THE FOUNDATION'S EFFORTS HELP THOUSANDS OF LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS OF CONNECTICUT BY ENABLING THEM TO OBTAIN CRITICAL LEGAL INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND LEGAL REPRESENTATION. ONE OF THE INNOVATIVE WAYS THE CBF ACCOMPLISHES THIS IS BY HELPING TO FUND THE CTLAWHELP.ORG WEBSITE WHERE LOW INCOME PEOPLE CAN FIND ASSISTANCE WITH THIER LEGAL NEEDS AND TOOLS FOR SELF RESPRESENTATIONS. THE FOUNDATION HELPS THE MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING CHILDREN WHO ARE ABUSED, NEGLECTED AND OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED, DISABLED PEOPLE, ELDERLY VICTIMS OF CONSUMER FRAUD AND OTHER ABUSE, IMMIGRANTS, MANY OF THEM CHILDREN, LOW-INCOME FAMILIES TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHT TO SAFE HOUSING AND FIGHT UNLAWFUL EVICTIONS, AND THOSE VICTIMIZED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

  Expenses $317,826 · Revenue $7,047,277

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $271,232 · Grants $245,836 · Revenue $85,493

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES

  $9,419,228

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID

  $4,935,899

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE

  $4,088,849

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES

  $769,043

  TO PROVIDE BRIEF LEG

• CONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER

  $690,524

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY

  $580,544

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• CONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT

  $550,675

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• THE CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CONNECTICUT

  $202,064

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• CONNECTICUT FAIR HOUSING CENTER

  $151,387

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

• OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE

  $97,550

  TO PROVIDE LEGAL SER

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

15 May 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202341359349309689

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