· Public charity
Active City Inc
Active City strives to work with community stakeholders to transform Hartford into Americas most physically active city for children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $80,167 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $98,167 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CT Lady Canes | $20,488 |
| 2-4-1 CARE | $15,000 |
| Hartford Knights Corp | $13,500 |
| YMCA of Metro Hartford | $11,979 |
| Connecticut Scholars Incorpor | $6,800 |
| Hartford Soccer Club Inc | $6,500 |
| Hartford Premier Developmt Le | $5,900 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HSHARTFORD SOCCER CLUB INC4× · 2022–2025 · $78k
- HPHartford Premier & Developmt4× · 2022–2025 · $77k
- NBNEW BIRTH TABERNACLE MINISTRIES3× · 2022–2024 · $50k
Funded once
- MMMayor Mike Peters LLCone grant, 2023 · $8k
- COCHARTER OAK AMATEUR BOXING ACADEMY AND YOUTH DEV PROGRAM INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Youth Sports activities
Develop local youth in soccer skills and team play
We provide youth sports training year round. We provide practice and game fields all league and tournament fees insurance uniforms equipment etc.
Youth basketball instruction
Youth Sports and Life Skills
Youth Athletic program
Teaching team building and sportsmanship to young adults
Provide cheerleading and football to all children in the hampshire area and surrounding communities, the process that involves traing volunteers and preparing for the season
Youth & Police Positive Relatio
Promote Sports and fitness activities for youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Knights Corp and the most unlike its peers is Greater Joy Mission Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds 2-4-1 Care Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH FOOTBALL INC HARTFORD WILDCATS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER JOY MISSION CHURCH ↗
- Who funds HARTFORDS PROUD DRILL DRUM & DANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds Rich Dae Entrepreneur Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD KNIGHTS CORP ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK AMATEUR BOXING ACADEMY AND YOUTH DEV PROGRAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Active City Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated — 70% of income from government
- Hartford Knights Corp — 68% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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