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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$188k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$957kEmployment$68kYouth Development$66kHuman Services$57kHealth$28kHousing & Shelter$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kInternational$3k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $487,614, the rows itemized in this filing. The $503,491 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,877 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $346k
$20,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC$187,500
CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$107,000
YWCA NEW BRITAIN$51,264
HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY$30,000
ITS MY MONEY OF FL$26,350
THE WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT INITIATIVE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$20,500
ANGEL OF EDGEWOOD$15,000
QPLUS$10,000
THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN$10,000
CT STUDENTS FOR A DREAM$10,000
MAKE THE ROAD CT$10,000
HARTFORD DEPORTATION DEFENSE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CT STUDENTS FOR A DREAM: $10k → 9%LIVEGIRL: $10k → 9%THE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $3k → 11%DIGNITY GROWS: $3k → 11%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 11%JOURNEY HOME: $4k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD CT: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+62%

Still filing today

83%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitFood & NutritionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $327k · revenue +82%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $117k · revenue +13%
  • HP
    HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $89k · revenue +429%

Funded once

  • MC
    MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +67%
  • CC
    CTDATA COLLABORATIVEgraduated
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +143%
  • CO
    CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $14k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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.

Public Benefit
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

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…

Philanthropy
4
Women's Business Development Council Inc

The 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…

Education
5
The Connecticut Women's Consortium Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Women and Families Center

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.

Human Services
7
Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development Inc

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.

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8
She Leads Justice Inc

She Leads Justice is a statewide nonprofit organization that advocates for and empowers women and girls in Connecticut, especially those who are underserved or marginalized. We work to create an equitable society where women and girls…

—
9
Junior League of Hartford Inc

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.

Community Improvement
10
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

—
11
Light of Faith Foundation

Educational, health and communi

Health
12
Hartford Promise Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Hartford Region Inc; the most unlike its peers is Qplus Queer Youth Program of Connecticut. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC: $664,500 · OtherYWCA HARTFORD REGION INCCHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $327,000 · OtherCHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $117,264 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INCASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherMANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $45,000 · Other+10 more: $96,850 · Other+10 moreHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $88,500 · EducationHARTFORD PUBLIC L…UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $56,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAR…GRACE ACADEMY: $42,000 · EducationGRACE ACADEMYTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF…GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $23,000 · EducationGOODWIN UNIVERSIT…THE WOMENS ADVANCEMENT INITIATIVE INC: $12,000 · EducationMake The Road States Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $13,000 · Human ServicesLiveGirl Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOME INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROWS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesGIRLS FOR TECHNOLOGY INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentQPLUS QUEER YOUTH PROGRAM OF CONNECTICUT: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCTDATA COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 · Public BenefitANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $10,000 · HealthREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Civil Rights
Other$1,300,614Education$252,000Human Services$49,000Youth Development$22,500Public Benefit$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA HARTFORD REGION INC: $664,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $327,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC: $117,264 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $88,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $56,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $42,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCTDATA COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS FOR TECHNOLOGY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLiveGirl Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Hartford Foundation f…Farmington Bank Commu…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Fund for Greater …J Walton Bissell Foun…United Way Inc United…William Caspar Graust…Sandra & Arnold Chase…The Betty Knox Founda…Sbm Charitable Founda…Newalliance Foundatio…Aetna Foundation Inc
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT39.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 50%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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