· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 613 grants below total $51,548,793 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $54,939,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,390,661 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 $10k99 grants · $724k
- $10k–50k330 grants · $6.7M
- $50k–250k129 grants · $13M
- $250k+55 grants · $31M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC | $2,475,443 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $1,669,150 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $1,400,000 |
| EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY | $1,325,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $1,146,931 |
| MOVE UNITED | $1,106,680 |
| WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART | $962,579 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC | $853,512 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $847,631 |
| HARTFORD PROMISE INC | $823,960 |
| HARTFORD STAGE | $788,290 |
| CAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC | $755,216 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC | $736,900 |
| COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE | $690,000 |
| HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $678,678 |
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 (FY17–24, $40.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
810 repeat relationships — 468 still active in FY2024, 342 since wound down; 124 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
- TVTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +95%
- CYCOMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE7× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +43% · 50% of their budget
- CWCAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- FBFIRST BOOKone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -27%
- HDHOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +264%
- EEDADVANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $545k · revenue +84%
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.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
Provide education and legal information, conferences and special activities; public relations, legislative efforts and lobbying for members.
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1061 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. 1061 of the 1,419 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds 4-CT CORP ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PROSPERITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF CONN HEALTH CENTER AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE UNITED ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds IMMACARE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD 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: Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · Greater Hartford Arts Council 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 Hartford Foundation for Public Giving 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.
- Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc — 100% of income from government
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hedco Inc — 100% of income from government
- My People Community Services Inc — 100% of income from government
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Mothers United Against Violence — 100% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
- Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
- Marc Inc of Manchester — 89% of income from government
- The Arc of the Farmington Valley Inc — 86% of income from government
- Capital Workforce Partners Inc — 86% of income from government
- Community Health Center Assoc of Connecticut Inc — 85% of income from government
- Girls for Technology Inc — 80% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Community Renewal Team Inc — 77% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- Blue Hills Civic Association — 72% of income from government
- Organized Parents Make a Difference Inc — 66% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Readyct Inc — 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Open Hearth Association — 59% of income from government
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Immacare Inc — 52% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Institute for Community Research Inc — 48% of income from government
- Noah Webster House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance Inc — 43% of income from government
- Futures Incorporated — 43% of income from government
- Edadvance — 41% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
- Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
- Ct Community Nonprofit Alliance Inc — 38% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Prosperity Foundation Inc — 37% of income from government
- The Artists Collective Inc — 35% of income from government
- Ctdata Collaborative — 35% of income from government
- Intercommunity Inc — 34% of income from government
- Connecticut Fair Housing Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Interseminarian - Project Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- My Sisters' Place Inc — 26% of income from government
- 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc — 25% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Second Chance Re-Entry Initiative Program — 23% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- She Leads Justice Inc — 22% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Hockanum Valley Community Council — 20% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Capital for Change Inc — 19% of income from government
- Lawyers for Children America Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc — 18% of income from government
- Ebony Horsewomen Inc — 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Move United — 16% of income from government
- Housing Development Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Health Equity Solutions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective Inc — 9% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Performs Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
- Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partnership for Strong Communities — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Integrated Health Services 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.