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The Betty Knox Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$139kHuman Services$44kEducation$44kRecreation & Sports$42kYouth Development$36kCrime & Legal$25kCommunity Improvement$25kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

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.

area typical 16%Dignity Grows: $694 → 11%Journey Home: $1k → 11%Gifts of Love: $3k → 11%Gifts of Love: $2k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $2k → 11%Covenant to Care for Children: $3k → 11%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $2k → 11%COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%Covenant to Care for Children: $2k → 11%Hands on Hartford: $694 → 11%Hands on Hartford: $382 → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $253 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
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.
04

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.

The Betty Knox Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$315k · 63 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
92

Total granted

$315k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+19%

Still filing today

65%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KENEY PARK INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +138%
  • RA
    REAL ART WAYS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +95%
  • EH
    Ebony Horsewomen Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • AC
    Active City Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • BT
    Ballet Theatre Company
    one 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.

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
The Hartford Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.

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2
Hartford Neighborhood Centers

To be an educational, cultural, social and recreational "safe have" of opportunity for the diverse ethnic populations of Greater Hartford

Human Services
3
Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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4
The Hartford Guides Inc

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.

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5
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

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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6
Hartford Public Access Television Inc

Public access television

Arts & Culture
7
Capital City Education Foundation Inc

To support and improve the overall health and well-being of the greater hartford community through grants, projects and partnerships.

Philanthropy
8
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
9
West Indian Social Club of Hartford Inc
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10
Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc

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

—
11
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

—
12
Connecticut Academy for the Arts Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Performs Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+118 more: $278,157 · Other+118 moreNIGHT FALL INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureNIGHT FALL IN…REAL ART WAYS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureREAL ART WAYS…THE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTISTS C…CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCHARTER OAK T…GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER HARTF…SONIA PLUMB DANCE COMPANY INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureSONIA PLUMB D…FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST NIGHT H…Cinestudio Inc: $2,506 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $6,116 · Arts & Culture+7 moreACHIEVE HARTFORD INC: $8,500 · EducationACHIEVE HAR…The Riseup Group Inc: $8,194 · EducationThe Riseup …HARTFORD PARENT UNIVERSITY: $5,210 · EducationHARTFORD PA…COMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC: $4,753 · EducationCOMMUNITY F…LAYAVINYASA COMPANY: $4,300 · EducationLAYAVINYASA…ORGANIZED PARENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE INC: $4,000 · EducationORGANIZED P…HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $4,000 · EducationHARTFORD YO…RECENTER RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION INC: $2,000 · EducationTRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC: $2,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $1,556 · EducationFRIENDS OF KENEY PARK INC: $10,270 · Recreation & SportsEbony Horsewomen Inc: $9,888 · Recreation & SportsCapitol Squash Inc: $6,778 · Recreation & SportsBUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $3,201 · Recreation & SportsGIFTS OF LOVE INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON HARTFORD INC: $1,329 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOME INC: $1,004 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROWS INC: $694 · Human ServicesHARTFORD PERFORMS INC: $11,289 · Youth DevelopmentActive City Inc: $2,694 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS FOR TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,734 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run Greater Connecticut: $640 · Youth DevelopmentiQuilt Partnership Inc: $10,077 · Community ImprovementHartford NEXT Inc: $2,500 · Community ImprovementHARTFORD COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $1,750 · Community Improvement
Other$278,157Arts & Culture$56,122Education$46,513Recreation & Sports$36,137Human Services$18,027Youth Development$16,357Community Improvement$16,327

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 PERFORMS INC: $11,289 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNIGHT FALL INC: $11,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KENEY PARK INC: $10,270 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetiQuilt Partnership Inc: $10,077 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetREAL ART WAYS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEbony Horsewomen Inc: $9,888 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEVE HARTFORD INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Riseup Group Inc: $8,194 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTIKIDS INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCapitol Squash Inc: $6,778 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGIFTS OF LOVE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HARTFORD LTD: $6,168 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP COURANT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN IN PLACEMENT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHARTFORD PARENT UNIVERSITY: $5,210 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC: $5,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC: $4,753 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH PARK INN INC: $4,513 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER HARTFORD INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAYAVINYASA COMPANY: $4,300 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT HEALTH I-TEAM INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetORGANIZED PARENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSONIA PLUMB DANCE COMPANY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INC: $2,789 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $2,730 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetActive City Inc: $2,694 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCinestudio Inc: $2,506 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBallet Theatre Company: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHartford NEXT Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRECENTER RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN RESEARCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHARTFORD COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI OF CONNECTICUT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC: $1,770 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS FOR TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,734 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT136.5× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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 167 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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