Connecticut · 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.
- $720k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $720k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $656k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $900k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $585k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $728k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $586k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $526k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Resources Inc | $433,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Hartford Performs Inc | $342,500 | 9 | 13% |
| Middlesex United Way Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Connecticut Council for Philanthropy | $245,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc | $243,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Camp Courant Inc | $242,569 | 8 | 3% |
| Oddfellows Playhouse | $238,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of New Britain Inc | $225,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Read to Grow Inc | $197,000 | 9 | 3% |
| The Village for Families and Children | $165,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc supplied at peak.
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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 · 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
How this is measured
About The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc
- How much does The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc give?
- The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc reported 21 grants totaling $720,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Health Resources Inc ($433k), Hartford Performs Inc ($343k), Middlesex United Way Inc ($250k).
- Does The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc based?
- The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc is based in CT.
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