· Private foundation
The Ahearn Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDS ON HARTFORD | $6,262 |
| SOUTHINGTON COMMUNITY CULTURAL ARTS | $6,000 |
| BRISTOL BRASS AND WIND ENSEMBLE | $5,362 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER | $4,925 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $4,063 |
| INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICES | $3,917 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $3,126 |
| AMERICAN CLOCK & WATCH MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| CONNECTIKIDS INC | $3,000 |
| RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE | $2,767 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CONNECTICUT INC | $2,635 |
| THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC | $2,000 |
| HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION | $1,991 |
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 (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Ahearn Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- HOHANDS ON HARTFORD INC5× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +125%
- KIKNOX INC5× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +26%
- SCSOUTHINGTON COMMUNITY CULTURAL ARTS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +60%
Funded once
REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +26%- ACADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +23%
- CCCHRYSALIS CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +13%
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 connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The Hartford Artisans Weaving Center is a supportive and creative community that preserves, promotes and teaches the craft of hand-weaving. We teach fiber-related classes for all ages, curate exhibits and sales, and run a unique artisan…
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
Non-profit organization which was founded by the state of ct general assembly as a model for employer - sponsored childcare programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Princen Sammy Eduful & Herty Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 64 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 HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHINGTON COMMUNITY CULTURAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PARK INN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW BRITAIN TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CLOCK AND WATCH MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Integrated Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds 4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC ↗
- Who funds ADELBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN 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 · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Aetna Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · 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 The Ahearn Family 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.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Mental Health Connecticut Inc — 82% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- 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
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc — 31% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc — 25% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Adelbrook Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Integrated Health Services 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.