· Private foundation
Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| HARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC | $28,500 |
| GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ | $25,000 |
| REAL ART WAYS INC | $20,000 |
| TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE | $16,000 |
| PARKVILLE SENIOR CENTER | $14,500 |
| BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC | $13,500 |
| THE ARCHER FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT | $10,500 |
| FRIENDS OF POPE PARK INC | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $8,000 |
| CONNECTICUT LANDMARKS | $7,000 |
| WEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $5,600 |
| ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC | $3,600 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +5% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +25%
- HJHARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $84k · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
- GHGREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- GHGREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZone grant, 2021 · $18k
- RAREAL ART WAYS, INC.one grant, 2021 · $15k
- BHBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.
Organize an annual multi-cultural festival in Waterbury, CT, celebrating music, food and dance from around the world.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.
To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.
The primary objectives and purpose of the Hartford Dance Collective (The Dance Collective) is to provide performance opportunities in dance for female choreographers and to share professional contemporary dance with new audiences by…
We exist to be a catalyst for the arts and promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford.
Commissions world class public artworks, programming, and events on a project by project basis in partnership with local agencies and organizations that enhance New Havens cultural heritage and diversity.
Historic Music of Newport preserves the musical history of Newport, Rhode Island through research and programming.
Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is West End Civic Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 43 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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC ↗
- Who funds TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC ↗
- Who funds Parkville Senior Center ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History ↗
- Who funds THE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds FORGE CITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CUATRO PUNTOS 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation
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 Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial 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.
- Blue Hills Civic Association — 72% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Artists Collective Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Friends of Keney Park Inc — 12% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cuatro Puntos Inc — 2% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- First Night Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra 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.