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Metrohartford Alliance Inc

To help hartford compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$5.8MHousing & Shelter$100k
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $1,878,065, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,995,425 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $117,360 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $342k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.5M
$58,850
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2074-2100 PARK STREET LLC$150,000
FORGE CITY WORKS$141,000
2074-2100 PARK STREET LLC$137,500
485 MAIN STREET ASSOCIATES LLC$127,000
MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOC OF GRTR HTFD$100,000
SPECTRA TOP LLC$79,000
BOND DEVELOPMENT LLC$75,875
3229 MAIN STREET REALTY LLC$75,000
SUNBERRY CAF & CATERING VS OWNER (SGS 57-75 PRATT STREET LLC)$74,633
1429 PARK STREET LLC$73,000
ALBANY GROUP CT LLC$70,000
UNION BSD LLC$66,800
HARTFORD UNLIMITED ENTERPRISES INC$63,000
156 FRANKLIN AVENUE LLC$62,300
B HARTFORD LLC$62,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHLAND VENTURES LP NORTHLAND TRUMBULL LLC: $120k → 8%SHELBOURNE PRATT DVLPMT LLC: $251k → 20%JO BARB LLC: $113k → 11%ALLYN STREET COMMERCIAL LLC: $50k → 8%B HARTFORD LLC: $88k → 11%3229 MAIN STREET REALTY LLC: $75k → 11%3229 MAIN STREET REALTY LLC: $75k → 11%HARTFORD UNLIMITED ENTERPRISES INC: $81k → 11%ALBANY GROUP CT LLC: $70k → 11%HARTFORD UNLIMITED ENTERPRISES INC: $63k → 11%SREP HTFD OZ LLC: $69k → 11%P2B DOWNTOWN LLC: $150k → 11%NORTHLAND VENTURES LP NORTHLAND TRUMBULL LLC: $150k → 11%SGS 196 TRUMBULL ST HOLDINGS: $145k → 11%NORTHLAND VENTURES LP NORTHLAND TRUMBULL LLC: $133k → 11%250 MAIN ASSOCIATES LLC: $133k → 11%GRUNBERG 280 TRUMBULL LLC: $113k → 11%UDOLF INVESTMENTS LLC DBA UDOLF PROPERTIES: $105k → 11%SPECTRA TOP LLC: $79k → 11%BOND DEVELOPMENT LLC: $76k → 11%SUNBERRY CAFE & CATERING: $75k → 11%STARK BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC: $75k → 11%SGS 99 PRATT LLC: $75k → 11%SUNBERRY CAF & CATERING VS OWNER (SGS 57-75 PRATT STREET LLC): $75k → 11%NORTHLAND VENTURES LP NORTHLAND TRUMBULL LLC: $74k → 11%UNION BSD LLC: $67k → 11%SPECTRA 111 MASTER TENANT LLC: $66k → 11%B HARTFORD LLC: $62k → 11%AKRUM SHEIKH 205 MAIN ST LLC: $56k → 11%SGS 57-75 PRATT STREET LLC: $51k → 11%2074-2100 PARK STREET LLC: $150k → 11%FORGE CITY WORKS: $141k → 11%2074-2100 PARK STREET LLC: $138k → 11%FORGE CITY WORKS: $132k → 11%485 MAIN STREET ASSOCIATES LLC: $127k → 11%PARKVILLE LLC: $121k → 11%HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $108k → 11%MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOC OF GRTR HTFD: $100k → 11%1429 PARK STREET LLC: $77k → 11%1429 PARK STREET LLC: $73k → 11%1200 PARK STREET LLC: $63k → 11%WOLVERINE PROPERTY LLC: $59k → 11%WOLVERINE PROPERTY LLC: $59k → 11%ROLLING DISH LLC: $51k → 11%FULL CIRCLE REALTY LLC: $177k → 11%CONNECTICUT LIGHTING CENTER: $150k → 11%40 AIRPORT ROAD HARTFORD LLC: $113k → 11%156 FRANKLIN AVENUE LLC: $62k → 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.
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 26 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.0M

Still filing today

12%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • NV
    NORTHLAND VENTURES LP NORTHLAND TRUMBULL LLC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $476k
  • FORGE CITY WORKS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $291k · revenue -26%
  • FC
    FULL CIRCLE REALTY LLC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $290k

Funded once

  • PD
    P2B DOWNTOWN LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • CL
    CONNECTICUT LIGHTING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • S1
    SGS 196 TRUMBULL ST HOLDINGS
    one grant, 2023 · $145k
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
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
1/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHLAND VENTURES LP NORTHLAND TRUMBULL LLC: $476,353 · OtherNORTHLAND VENTURES LP NORTHLAND TRUMBULL LLCFULL CIRCLE REALTY LLC: $290,000 · OtherFULL CIRCLE REALTY LLC2074-2100 PARK STREET LLC: $287,500 · OtherSHELBOURNE PRATT DVLPMT LLC: $268,100 · Other+43 more: $4,075,111 · Other+43 moreFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $291,000 · Community ImprovementHARTFORD COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $145,000 · Health
Other$5,397,064Community Improvement$336,000Health$145,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $291,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $145,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHARTFORD COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% 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.

  • Who funds FORGE CITY WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Metrohartford Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metrohartford Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Mutual Housing Association of Greater Hartford Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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