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Gawlicki Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$346kYouth Development$100kScience & Tech$99kHuman Services$54kArts & Culture$38kCommunity Improvement$25kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $785,162 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,222,512 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $437,350 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 $10k17 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $523k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys and Girls Club of Hartford$100,000
Hartford Youth Scholars$100,000
MCEIVR Inc (MakerspaceCT)$99,474
CBIA Education Foundation aka ReadyCT$73,543
YMCA of Greater Hartford$50,000
ROCA$50,000
The Community First School$50,000
Trinity Academy Hartford, Inc.$41,750
Covenant Prep School$25,000
Knox Inc.$25,000
Grace Academy$25,000
WAIM$20,100
Read to a Child$20,000
New England Air Museum$15,000
Judy Dworin Performance Project$15,000
02Your field

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.

1
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
2
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
3
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
4
Hartford Preservation Alliance Inc

Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.

Arts & Culture
5
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
6
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…

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7
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
8
Hartford HealthCare Corporation

Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.

Health
9
The Hartford Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.

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10
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
11
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
12
Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ecole Agape Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boys and Girls Club of Hartford — $100,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of HartfordMCEIVR Inc (MakerspaceCT) — $99,474 · OtherMCEIVR Inc (MakerspaceCT)CBIA Education Foundation aka ReadyCT — $73,543 · OtherCBIA Education Foundation aka ReadyCTROCA — $50,000 · OtherROCACovenant Prep School — $25,000 · OtherCovenant Prep SchoolWAIM — $20,100 · OtherRead to a Child — $20,000 · OtherJudy Dworin Performance Project — $15,000 · Other+12 more — $42,075 · Other+12 moreHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC — $100,000 · EducationHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INCCOMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INCTRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC — $41,750 · EducationTRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INCGRACE ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationGRACE ACADEMYTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $720 · EducationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesNew Beginnings Family and Childrens Services Inc — $4,000 · Human ServicesKNOX INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATERWORKS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureHOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER INC — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterSENIORS JOB BANK INC — $2,000 · Employment
Other$445,192Education$227,470Human Services$54,000Recreation & Sports$27,000Arts & Culture$21,500Housing & Shelter$8,000Employment$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC — $41,750 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetKNOX INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNew Beginnings Family and Childrens Services Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIORS JOB BANK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHEATERWORKS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHospital For Special Care — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ECOLE AGAPE INC — $720 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF CONNECTICUTINC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Hartford Foundation f…Aetna Foundation IncJohn and Kelly Hartma…The Robert & Margaret…The William and Alice…The Maximilian E and …Farmington Bank Commu…The Betty Knox Founda…J Walton Bissell Foun…Rockville Bank Commun…Lincoln Financial Fou…United Way Inc United…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT31.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · John and Kelly Hartman Foundation · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.5M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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