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Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial at a glance

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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.

$217k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$556kHuman Services$68kCommunity Improvement$67kRecreation & Sports$66kPublic Benefit$32kEducation$31kReligion$23kPhilanthropy$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $182k
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$684k · 17 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
23

Total granted

$684k
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-4%

Still filing today

88%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +25%
  • HJ
    HARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $84k · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
  • GH
    GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • GH
    GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • BH
    BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • RA
    REAL ART WAYS, INC.
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Southeastern Connecticut Community Orchestra Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Branford Festival Corporation

Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.

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3
Gathering Festival Inc

Organize an annual multi-cultural festival in Waterbury, CT, celebrating music, food and dance from around the world.

Arts & Culture
4
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
5
Hartford Preservation Alliance Inc

Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.

Arts & Culture
6
Hartford Historic Preservation Foundation Inc

To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.

Philanthropy
7
Hartford Dance Collective

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc

We exist to be a catalyst for the arts and promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford.

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9
Site Projects Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
West Indian Social Club of Hartford Inc
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11
Historic Music of Newport

Historic Music of Newport preserves the musical history of Newport, Rhode Island through research and programming.

Arts & Culture
12
Fine Arts Radio Inc

Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 43 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCGREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC: $67,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INCTASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC: $61,000 · Arts & CultureTASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INCREAL ART WAYS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureREAL ART WAYS INCARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT: $34,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUTTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INCTHE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC: $16,600 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $28,875 · Arts & Culture+4 moreHARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC: $83,750 · OtherHARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INCParkville Senior Center: $56,600 · OtherParkville Senior CenterFRIENDS OF POPE PARK INC: $35,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF POPE PARK INCGREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ: $18,000 · OtherBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · OtherREAL ART WAYS, INC.: $15,000 · OtherTHE ARCHER FOUNDATION: $13,500 · OtherWEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $12,600 · Other+16 more: $100,450 · Other+16 moreBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $54,050 · Community ImprovementFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $3,500 · Community ImprovementELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF KENEY PARK INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,400 · EducationCEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$409,975Other$349,900Community Improvement$57,550Recreation & Sports$27,000Education$25,400Philanthropy$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC: $83,750 over 3y, 27% of budgetGREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC: $67,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC: $61,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetParkville Senior Center: $56,600 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetREAL ART WAYS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $54,050 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT: $34,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $27,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC: $16,600 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $12,600 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUATRO PUNTOS INC: $3,375 over 1y, 3.6% 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…Greater Hartford Arts…Connecticut Humanitie…Edward C & Ann T Robe…J Walton Bissell Foun…The William and Alice…Aetna Foundation IncThe Betty Knox Founda…Sbm Charitable Founda…Farmington Bank Commu…The Zachs Family Foun…The Robert & Margaret…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT43.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 43 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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