Connecticut · 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.
- $503k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $488k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $187,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $488k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $435k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $342k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $76k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $116k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $117k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| YWCA Hartford Region Inc | $664,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Charter Oak State College Foundation Inc | $327,000 | 4 | 24% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of New Britain Inc | $117,264 | 3 | 1% |
| Hartford Public Library | $88,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Hartford | $56,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Manchester Community College | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grace Academy | $42,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Its My Money of Fl | $26,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Goodwin University Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc
- How much does Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc give?
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $487,614, out of $503,491 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (81%), Employment (6%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: YWCA Hartford Region Inc ($665k), Charter Oak State College Foundation Inc ($327k), Young Womens Christian Association of New Britain Inc ($117k).
- Does Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc, Liberty Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc based?
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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