· Private foundation
John and Kelly Hartman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BULGARIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER | $200,035 |
| THEATERWORKS INC | $55,000 |
| HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES OF | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL CLASSICS INC | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC THE | $5,000 |
| NOAH WEBSTER HOUSE | $3,500 |
| EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC | $2,500 |
| DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND | $2,500 |
| JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HILL-STEAD MUSEUM | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 11 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $924k · revenue +75%
DUKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $833k · revenue +51%- RAREAL ART WAYS INC5× · 2017–2024 · $598k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +17%
- TCThe Cradle Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +41%
- OROCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +16%
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.
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…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
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.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Laura Norton Fund. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 130 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 HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK FORK COALITION ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FORT BELKNAP COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOP MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CLASSICS INC ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds Capitol Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Theatre Group Inc ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LYME PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Explored Inc ↗
- Who funds Hyde School ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATION ↗
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 William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · The Fund for Greater Hartford 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 John and Kelly Hartman Foundation 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.
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- The Open Hearth Association — 59% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Noah Webster House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Seniors Job Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Capital Classics Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Arc of Connecticut Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care — 0% of income from government
- Mariners Hospital 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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