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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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 41% of H a Vance Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- 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%
- HOHANDS ON HARTFORD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +63%
- JHJOURNEY HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +280%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieve Hartford Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 25 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 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 HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD 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 HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 H a Vance Foundation Inc 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.
- 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
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.
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