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John and Kelly Hartman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John and Kelly Hartman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$411k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.7MEducation$1.7MEnvironment$240kHealth$50kHuman Services$48kYouth Development$28kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC THE$5,000
CAPITAL CLASSICS INC$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
HILL-STEAD MUSEUM$2,000
JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $250 → 8%VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC THE: $5k → 11%CRADLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%SUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $3k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $600 → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $500 → 9%FRESH START PALLET PRODUCTS INC: $250 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NEW ENGLAND: $2k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NEW ENGLAND: $1k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NEW ENGLAND: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $1k → 11%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $500 → 11%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $500 → 11%FARM TO FAMILY INC: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 58 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
57

Total granted

$5.4M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+16%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HS
    HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $924k · revenue +75%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $833k · revenue +51%
  • RA
    REAL ART WAYS INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $598k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +17%
  • OR
    OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • TC
    The Cradle Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +41%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
3
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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5
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

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.

Health
7
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

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.

Health
9
Wheaton College

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…

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; 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.
04the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
72/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BULGARIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER: $1,657,035 · OtherSILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BUL…BOSTON UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES OF: $100,000 · Other+72 more: $176,930 · Other+72 moreHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $924,350 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INCREAL ART WAYS INC: $597,500 · Arts & CultureREAL ART WAYS INCTHEATERWORKS INC: $131,500 · Arts & CultureTHEATERWORKS INC+11 more: $141,750 · Arts & Culture+11 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $832,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYINTERCULTURE FOUNDATION INC: $597,000 · EducationINTERCULTURE FOUNDATION INC+18 more: $88,990 · Education+18 moreAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EnvironmentCLARK FORK COALITION: $60,000 · EnvironmentVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $45,000 · EnvironmentFORT BELKNAP COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOP MENT CORPORATION: $45,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $250 · Community ImprovementThe Cradle Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $3,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $2,000 · Human Services+5 more: $3,100 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC: $13,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyHospital For Special Care Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,933,965Arts & Culture$1,795,100Education$1,518,490Environment$240,000Community Improvement$45,250Human Services$42,600Philanthropy$23,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $924,350 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $832,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetREAL ART WAYS INC: $597,500 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetINTERCULTURE FOUNDATION INC: $597,000 over 5y, 94% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATERWORKS INC: $131,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCLARK FORK COALITION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $48,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFORT BELKNAP COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOP MENT CORPORATION: $45,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL CLASSICS INC: $33,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC: $11,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCapitol Squash Inc: $10,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPlayhouse Theatre Group Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $8,140 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $6,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLYME PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Explored Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHyde School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $4,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $3,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN CONNECTICUT BALLET INC: $3,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNoah Webster House Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Hartford Foundation f…The William and Alice…Farmington Bank Commu…Aetna Foundation IncSandra & Arnold Chase…J Walton Bissell Foun…The Maximilian E and …Connecticut Humanitie…The Zachs Family Foun…The Robert & Margaret…United Way Inc United…The Fund for Greater …
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT73.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John and Kelly Hartman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Kelly Hartman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 410%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
41get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to John and Kelly Hartman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John and Kelly Hartman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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