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Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc
The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford unlocks the transformative power of individuals and collective philanthropy to address problems, strengthen community organizations,and provide permanent support for the Jewish Community of Greater Hartford.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 116 grants below total $6,245,353 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,845,204 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $599,851 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $265k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford | $1,581,176 |
| Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford | $396,574 |
| Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven | $350,000 |
| New England Jewish Academy | $318,516 |
| Joyce D and Andrew J Mandell Jewish Community Center | $298,518 |
| The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven | $250,000 |
| Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford | $216,368 |
| Fenwick Improvement Fund | $175,000 |
| Camp Laurelwood | $158,550 |
| Chabad House of Greater Hartford | $125,508 |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $102,081 |
| Chabad of East Boca Raton | $100,000 |
| Jewish Association for Community Living | $88,663 |
| University of Connecticut Foundation | $85,500 |
| The Loomis Chaffee School | $80,600 |
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 (FY20–25, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k 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
- JFJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +103%
- TJTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +22%
- NENEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +128%
Funded once
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice Universityone grant, 2022 · $101k · revenue +19%
- SHSOPHIE'S HOPE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue -18%
- TBTemple Bnai Abrahamone grant, 2020 · $44k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and the most unlike its peers is Meor of Boston Inc. 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 40 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
146 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. 146 of the 181 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME & HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH TEEN LEARNING CONNECTIONINC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BNai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Connecticut ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds FENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JFACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP LAURELWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST LEARNING AND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
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 · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
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 Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford 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.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Children and Families First — 87% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Community Living Inc — 84% of income from government
- Girls for Technology Inc — 80% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% 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
- Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective Inc — 9% of income from government
- Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 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
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Federation Homes Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 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
- Drew University — 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.