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· Private foundation
The Imagineers Foundation Inc
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$60k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Animals$1.0MYouth Development$100kEducation$50kHuman Services$35kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$2k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
hartford
2021
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2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$316k
Total assets
Largest grants
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD INC$60,000
02The need
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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.
None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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University of Hartford
The university provides a learning environment in which students may transform themselves intellectually, personally and socially.
Education
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Hartford Hospital
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
Health
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Hartford International University for
Hartford international university for religion and peace serves god: by preparing leaders, students, scholars and religions institutions to understand and live faithfully in today's multi-faith and pluralistic world; by teaching, research,…
Education
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Hartford Historic Preservation
To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.
Philanthropy
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Leadership Greater Hartford Inc
To develop, connect and inspire diverse leaders to build strong and vibrant communities.
Public Benefit
6
Hartford Food System Inc
Fight hunger & improve nutrition for the disadvantaged via sustainable, non-emergency strategies.Programs are implemented to improve access to nutritious & affordable food, help consumers make informed food choices & advance responsible…
Food & Nutrition
7
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
The hartford foundation for public giving, established in 1925, is the community foundation for the 29 towns in the hartford region. its mission is putting philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant…
Philanthropy
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Church Home of Hartford Inc
To provide housing and supplemental services to the elderly.
Human Services
9
The Hartford Guides Inc
To provide information and assistance to the public in the downtown area.
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Metrohartford Alliance Inc
To help hartford compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
Community Improvement
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Habitat for Humanity of Eastern
Habitat for humanity of eastern connecticut, inc., in the spirit of sharing, creates affordable homeownership opportunities for households in our community. this is achieved through dedicated efforts of volunteers and community partners…
Housing & Shelter
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Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc
To develop and advocate public policies to allow for decent and affordable housing in ct.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hands On Hartford Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sea Research Foundation Inc. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Animals$1,000,000Youth Development$100,000Education$50,000Human Services$35,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Other$1,500
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.
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.
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family · The William and Alice Mortensen · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman · Farmington Bank Community · Amica Companies Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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 organisation The Imagineers Foundation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- The Open Hearth Association — 59% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 061480300 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Imagineers Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Imagineers Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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