· Private foundation
The Betty Knox Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Betty Knox Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF KENEY PARK INC5× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +138%
- RAREAL ART WAYS INC5× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +95%
- EHEbony Horsewomen Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ACActive City Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- BTBallet Theatre Companyone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -84%
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.
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.
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…
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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…
How this is measured
76 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. 76 of the 167 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds The Riseup Group Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Capitol Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HARTFORD LTD ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds BUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Betty Knox Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Betty Knox Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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