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The Highland Park Families Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCES OF CHURCHES | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC | $5,000 |
| WINDING TRAILS | $5,000 |
| BOLTON PARENT AND TEACHER ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CONNECTICUT CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP INC | $4,500 |
| LITTLE THEATER OF MANCHESTER | $3,000 |
| MANCHESTER ROTARY CLUB | $3,000 |
| EAST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY INC | $2,500 |
| HARTFORD MARATHON FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| FHS PROJECT GRADUATION | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY CONNECTICUT CHAPTER | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 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, 94% 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
- WTWINDING TRAILS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +37%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +58%
- MCMANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- MAMANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue 0%
- FFFMI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +47%
- IAIRISH AMERICAN HOME SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -31%
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 provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
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…
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Advancect foundation addresses economic inequality in connecticut through funding workforce development and skills training, particularly targeting distressed communities.
To provide and promote just and affordable financial services that benefit low-wealth residents of the communities served by hclf.
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 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 Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Club East Colfax Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 16% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 107 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 WINDING TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARC INC OF MANCHESTER ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD MARATHON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER OF MANCHESTER CT ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC ↗
- Who funds FMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CONN BREAST HEALTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOLTON PARENT AND TEACHER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IRISH AMERICAN HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FARMINGTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF MANCHESTER 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 · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Newalliance 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 Highland Park Families Foundation 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.
- Journey Found Inc — 93% of income from government
- Marc Inc of Manchester — 89% of income from government
- The Open Hearth Association — 59% of income from government
- Futures Incorporated — 43% of income from government
- Hockanum Valley Community Council — 20% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cast Inc — 2% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% 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.
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