Connecticut · Private foundation
The Ahearn Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $67k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,635
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,262
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Ahearn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $67k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $65k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $90k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $46k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $49k | 82% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hands on Hartford Inc | $18,531 | 5 | 0% |
| Knox Inc | $16,229 | 5 | 0% |
| Southington Community Cultural Arts Inc | $16,100 | 4 | 2% |
| Riverfront Recapture Inc | $13,814 | 5 | 0% |
| Hartford Interval House Inc | $13,605 | 4 | 0% |
| Prudence Crandall Center Inc | $12,653 | 3 | 0% |
| South Park Inn Inc | $11,735 | 4 | 0% |
| Connectikids Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 1% |
| The Children's Museum Inc | $11,157 | 4 | 0% |
| American School at Hartford for the Deaf | $10,713 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ahearn Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Ahearn Family Foundation
- How much does The Ahearn Family Foundation give?
- The Ahearn Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $66,655 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ahearn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Arts & Culture (20%), Education (17%).
- Who are The Ahearn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hands on Hartford Inc ($19k), Knox Inc ($16k), Southington Community Cultural Arts Inc ($16k).
- Does The Ahearn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ahearn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ahearn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc, J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ahearn Family Foundation based?
- The Ahearn Family Foundation is based in CT.
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