How much does The Highland Park Families Foundation give?

The Highland Park Families Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $70,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Highland Park Families Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (14%).

Who are The Highland Park Families Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Winding Trails Inc ($45k), Manchester Soccer Club Inc ($30k), East Catholic High School ($30k).

Does The Highland Park Families Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Highland Park Families Foundation 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 Highland Park Families Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Aetna Foundation Inc, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Highland Park Families Foundation based?

The Highland Park Families Foundation is based in CT.

The Highland Park Families Foundation

The Highland Park Families Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

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.

$71k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$147kEducation$107kFood & Nutrition$87kHealth$78kHuman Services$44kArts & Culture$40kPublic Benefit$22kYouth Development$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,250

Median grant

States reached

$419k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WINDING TRAILS	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC	$5,000
MANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCES OF CHURCHES	$5,000
BOLTON PARENT AND TEACHER ASSOCIATION	$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CONNECTICUT CHAPTER	$5,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP INC	$4,500
EAST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL	$3,000
LITTLE THEATER OF MANCHESTER	$3,000
MANCHESTER ROTARY CLUB	$3,000
GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY INC	$2,500
HARTFORD MARATHON FOUNDATION INC	$2,500
FHS PROJECT GRADUATION	$2,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS	$2,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY CONNECTICUT CHAPTER	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$524k · 48 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$524k

$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

Still filing today

54%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

WT
WINDING TRAILS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +37%
FF
FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
8× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +58%
MC
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +80%

Funded once

MA
MANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue 0%
FF
FMI FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +47%
MF
MCC FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Connecticut Health Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

—

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…

—

Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health

Advancect Foundation Inc

Advancect foundation addresses economic inequality in connecticut through funding workforce development and skills training, particularly targeting distressed communities.

Community Improvement

Hartford Community Loan Fund Inc

To provide and promote just and affordable financial services that benefit low-wealth residents of the communities served by hclf.

Community Improvement

Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

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.

—

Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health

Universal Health Care Fndtn of Ct Inc

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…

Health

The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health

Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals

Connecticut Bankers Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; 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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 107 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/57

Grantees still filing

37/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$456,336Recreation & Sports$67,000Education$29,000Philanthropy$21,100Arts & Culture$20,350Health$18,840Human Services$18,500

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.

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 GivingCT62.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Highland Park Families Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Highland Park Families Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

25get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely 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.

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