· Public charity
Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc
The aurora women and girls foundation galvanizes resources to increase economic security, educational attainment, and leadership for women and girls in the greater hartford region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $434,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $463,478 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,978 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC | $194,500 |
| CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YWCA NEW BRITAIN | $60,000 |
| HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT INITIATIVE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD | $15,000 |
| A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC MUTUAL AID HARTFORD | $10,000 |
| DIAPER BANK CT | $7,500 |
| REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- COCHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $220k · revenue +82%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +13%
- HPHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY4× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +429%
Funded once
- CCCTDATA COLLABORATIVEgraduated2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +143%
- COCHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $14k
- TWTHE WOMENS ADVANCEMENT INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.
Wfc is committed to promoting equity and to improving quality of life through services that foster empowerment and independence. our guiding vision: to be the leading agent for positive social change.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
The mission of the connecticut women's consortium is to ensure that the behavioral health system responds to the needs of women and the people and organization that affect them.
The junior league of hartford, inc. is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
To transform the lives of thousands of hartford students through an integrated college success model that provides them the financial resources, support services, & key relationships that lead to college success & economic mobility.
Tthe mission of the women's business development council (wbdc) is to support economic prosperity for women and strengthen communities through entrepreneurial and financial education services that create and grow sustainable jobs and…
To empower women and girls and promote inclusion and dignity for all in our community. through leadership, innovative programs, services and educational opportunities, ywca greenwich is a driving force for a healthier, safer and more…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Hartford Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Womens Advancement Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CTDATA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FOR TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC ↗
- Who funds LiveGirl Inc ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY GROWS 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 · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc
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 Aurora Women and Girls Foundation 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.
- Girls for Technology Inc — 80% of income from government
- Charter Oak State College Foundation Inc — 72% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Ctdata Collaborative — 35% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% 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.