· Public charity
Blue Hills Civic Association
BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION empowers the people living and working in the blue hills and surrounding communities to create stable and attractive neighborhoods through organizing, advocacy, and multigenerational programs.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $750k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PROSPERITY FOUNDATION | $1,100,000 |
| SHEBA CONSULTING LLC | $600,000 |
| UPPER ALBANY NEIGHBORHOOD COLLABORA | $550,000 |
| YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD | $250,000 |
| WILSON-GRAY YMCA | $250,000 |
| MY PEOPLE CLINICAL SERVICES LLC | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| HARTFORD HEALTH INITIATIVE | $150,000 |
| GREATER HARTFORD ALLIANCE OF BLACK | $100,200 |
| CONNECTICUT HARM REDUCTION ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| BERKINS FAMILY LLC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HARTFORD KNIGHTS CORP | $25,000 |
| WEST INDIAN INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIO | $20,000 |
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.
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.
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
To be an educational, cultural, social and recreational "safe have" of opportunity for the diverse ethnic populations of Greater Hartford
Represent and protect union members' rights and interests.
The hartford gay & lesbian health collective empowers individuals of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions to lead healthly lives through the provision of health and support services, education and advocacy.
To unite those engaged in the recognized branches of the real estate profession for the purpose of exerting a beneficial influence upon the profession and related interest.
To advance jurisprudence and administration of justice, to uphold and improve the professional and educational standards of the legal profession and provide the public with a lawyer referral service to advance the cause of law.
To promote and enhance the city of hartford by providing uniformed guides who provide information and assistance to the public in the downtown and other areas of hartford.
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…
Reflecting god's love to unlock the potential of hartford's youth, families, and neighborhoods.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Hartford Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Indian Independence Celebrations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 THE PROSPERITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER ALBANY NEIGHBORHOOD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Health Inititative Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HARM REDUCTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD KNIGHTS CORP ↗
- Who funds WEST INDIAN INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS ↗
- Who funds DT CARES INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Lions Soccer Academy ↗
- Who funds ANGEL OF EDGEWOOD 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 · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Blue Hills Civic Association 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.
- Upper Albany Neighborhood Collaborative — 73% of income from government
- Hartford Knights Corp — 70% of income from government
- The Prosperity Foundation Inc — 56% of income from government
- Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance Inc — 34% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 23% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 13% of income from government
- Hartford Lions Soccer Academy — 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.