· Private foundation
The Betty Knox Foundation Inc
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 |
|---|---|
| Leadership Greater Hartford | $2,500 |
| Emanuel Lutheran Church | $2,500 |
| Lift Every Voice and Sing | $2,500 |
| Hartford NEXT | $2,500 |
| Children in Placement | $2,500 |
| Greater Hartford Jazz Festival | $2,500 |
| Night Fall | $2,500 |
| Brooks Token Inc | $2,500 |
| Friends of Keeney Park | $2,500 |
| Covenant to Care for Children | $2,500 |
| Charter Oak Temple Restoration | $2,500 |
| AKNEW | $2,500 |
| Real Artways | $2,500 |
| Klassy Katz Elite Dance Team | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $18k) 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 9% of The Betty Knox Foundation Inc’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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 12 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF KENEY PARK INC5× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +138%
- RAREAL ART WAYS INC5× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +68%
- EHEbony Horsewomen Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ACActive City Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +12%
- CWCAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +120%
- HVHartford VotesSan Juan Centerone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
To be an educational, cultural, social and recreational "safe have" of opportunity for the diverse ethnic populations of Greater Hartford
To promote and enhance the city of hartford by providing uniformed guides who provide information and assistance to the public in the downtown and other areas of hartford.
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…
Public access television
To support and improve the overall health and well-being of the greater hartford community through grants, projects and partnerships.
To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.
We exist to be a catalyst for the arts and promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
is to provide an environment for quality personalized learning that integrates arts and creativity throughout an age appropriate curriculum, to cultivate innovative, collaborative and global thinkers and to prepare them for a life of civic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Performs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Layavinyasa Company. 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 27 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 167 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 PERFORMS INC ↗
- Who funds NIGHT FALL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KENEY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds iQuilt Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Ebony Horsewomen Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Riseup Group Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Capitol Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HARTFORD LTD ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN PLACEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PARENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PARK INN INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds LAYAVINYASA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HEALTH I-TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZED PARENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE 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 · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc · Aetna Foundation 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 Betty Knox Foundation Inc 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.
- Angel of Edgewood Inc — 100% of income from government
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Girls for Technology Inc — 80% of income from government
- Organized Parents Make a Difference Inc — 66% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Keney Park Sustainability Project — 37% of income from government
- The Artists Collective Inc — 35% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- Active City Inc — 29% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- My Sisters' Place Inc — 26% of income from government
- Hartford Preservation Alliance Inc — 21% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Lawyers for Children America Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc — 18% of income from government
- Ebony Horsewomen Inc — 18% of income from government
- Health Equity Solutions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Friends of Keney Park Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community First School Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Night Fall Inc — 8% of income from government
- Hartford Next Inc — 8% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Layavinyasa Company — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Performs Inc — 3% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Knox 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 Riseup Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Marathon Foundation 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.