· Private foundation
H a Vance Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READYCT | $100,000 |
| CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK | $75,000 |
| HARTFORD PROMISE | $70,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST | $65,000 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND | $50,000 |
| HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS | $40,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - CONNECTICUT | $35,000 |
| EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE | $25,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 41% of H a Vance Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +20%
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +44%- RIREADYCT INC6× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue ×21
Funded once
- CSCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +21%
- JHJOURNEY HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +280%
- HOHANDS ON HARTFORD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +63%
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.
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.
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.
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 stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…
The mission of achievement first hartford academy is to strengthen the academic and character skills needed for all students to excel in top-tier colleges, to achieve success in a competitive world and to serve as the next generation of…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
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…
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…
Social Impact Partners ("SIP") is an innovative nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the opportunity divide in Connecticut by expanding pathways to living wage jobs and economic mobility for all, working with partners across the…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds READYCT INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds CTDATA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN UNIVERSITY AKA LINCOLN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Carlos G Otis Health Care Center ↗
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 · Travelers Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Hospital · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization H a Vance Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H a Vance Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Readyct Inc: 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc: 59% of income from government
- Ctdata Collaborative: 35% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc: 21% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Rise Network Inc: 2% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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