· Private foundation
The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Connecticut Network for Children | $160,000 |
| School District of New Britain | $75,350 |
| CT Council for Philanthropy | $50,000 |
| Womens Business Development Corp | $50,000 |
| YWCA New Britain | $45,000 |
| Read to Grow INC | $40,000 |
| The Village for Families and Childr | $40,000 |
| Prudence Crandall Center | $35,000 |
| Camp Courant | $35,000 |
| Odd Fellows Playhouse | $35,000 |
| Compass Youth Collaborative | $30,000 |
| Literacy Volunteers of Central CT | $30,000 |
| Middlesex Health | $25,000 |
| The Bridge Family Center | $25,000 |
| CT Voices for Children | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $433k · revenue +59%
- CNCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC5× · 2018–2023 · $243k · revenue +996%
- CCCAMP COURANT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- CSCONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEWone grant, 2021 · $80k
- HCHtfd Campaign fGrade Level Readingone grant, 2019 · $50k
- KKKITE Key Initiatives To Educationone grant, 2019 · $45k
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 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.
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…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
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.
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 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.
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Artfarm. 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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 123 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 COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PERFORMS INC ↗
- Who funds Middlesex United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds ODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CTDATA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PARENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RADIO INFORMATION SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America 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 · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable 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 Fund for Greater Hartford 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.
- Ascend Mentoring — 100% of income from government
- Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc — 96% of income from government
- Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
- Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies Inc — 86% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- The Legacy Foundation of Hartford — 77% of income from government
- Unashamed Inc — 75% of income from government
- Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc — 70% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- New Britain Roots Inc — 46% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Ctdata Collaborative — 35% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- My Sisters' Place Inc — 26% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% 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
- Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community First School Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hartford Performs Inc — 3% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 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.