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COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP

EIN 37-1506932 HARTFORD, CT

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Revenue 2024
$371,637
Expenses 2024
$349,624

Program services were 37.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P86
Classification
1200
Street
151 NEW PARK AVE STE 101

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of the Communication Advocacy Network is to empower Deaf, Hard of Hearing, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing blind individuals in Connecticut by providing advocacy and culturally sensitive living services. These services are designed to preserve dignity, promote independence, and foster meaningful connections within their community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CAN provides auxiliary support services to statewide agencies who serve deaf or hard-of-hearing elderly (who require American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation by native users of ASL) and DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing blind, and Deaf and Hard of Hearing persons with diminished visual acuity regardless of race or gender so that they can be provided opportunities to succeed in areas of employment, education, housing, economics, and self-determination. Such opportunities are currently restricted due to the inability of public agencies to successfully communicate with those who are DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing blind.

  • Provide personal service to DeafBlind clients utilizing trained support service providers among these with various communication strategies including tactile American Sign Language.

    Expenses $82,084 · Grants $134,500 · Revenue $113,855

  • Provide personal services to Deaf elders utilizing trained client support providers among these with various communication strategies including American Sign Language.

    Expenses $34,583 · Grants $47,504 · Revenue $50,255

  • Provide service to DeafBlind and Deaf elders for peer mentoring, training, workshops, and consulting for web tech services including interpreting services.

    Expenses $6,738 · Grants $49,734 · Revenue $42,966

  • Outreach, education, and prevention programs for the DeafBlind community.

    Expenses $9,000 · Grants $18,000 · Revenue $9,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jennifer White-Jackson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $60,307
    From this org
    $60,307
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Susan V Pedersen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $44,420
    From this org
    $44,420
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Cheri Lynn Hembree

    Assistant Director

    Total calculated
    $33,301
    From this org
    $33,301
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Edward Peltier

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LeRoy Terrio Jr

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Debbie Bosworth

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Roselle Weiner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Wade D Terry Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Flaherty-Vaughn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maura McGuire

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $371,637
    Expenses
    $349,624
    Contributions
    $371,435
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $315,292
    Expenses
    $355,279
    Contributions
    $315,090
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $243,996
    Expenses
    $221,497
    Contributions
    $243,996
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $199,895
    Expenses
    $200,505
    Contributions
    $199,895
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $196,984
    Expenses
    $196,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,239

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Deborah Bosworth Treasurer
Mailing address
151 New Park Avenue Ste 101Hartford CT 06106
Website
www.cancorp.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.