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The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The William and Alice Mortensen 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.

$716k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.4MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$707kEnvironment$518kHealth$464kYouth Development$320kCommunity Improvement$297kRecreation & Sports$217kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $434k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REAL ART WAYS$60,000
CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER$50,000
UCONN FOUNDATION$50,000
FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD$30,000
HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY$26,020
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
NEW ENGLAND AIR MUSEUM$17,500
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF ART INC$15,587
CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER$15,466
SOUTH PARK INN$15,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK$15,000
ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC$15,000
NEW HORIZONS INC$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD$13,740
FRESH START PALLET INC$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $443k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES INC: $2k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND DBA OAK HILL: $12k → 11%GREATER HARTFORD HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $6k → 11%GREATER HARTFORD HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $6k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $3k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%GREATER HARTFORD HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $2k → 11%NEW HORIZONS INC: $38k → 11%NEW HORIZONS INC: $15k → 11%NEW HORIZONS INC: $15k → 11%NEW HORIZONS INC: $13k → 11%FARM TO FAMILY INC: $5k → 11%HARC: $35k → 11%HARC: $20k → 11%HARC: $10k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $8k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $8k → 11%HARC: $8k → 11%HARC: $7k → 11%VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $7k → 11%HARC: $7k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $6k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $6k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $6k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $6k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $6k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $5k → 11%HARC: $5k → 11%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $6k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $6k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $9k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $5k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $3k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $3k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $3k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $3k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $3k → 11%HANDS ON HARTFORD: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 114 repeat orgs$557k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

114 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
54

Total granted

$8.1M
$516k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+5%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TH
    THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $596k · revenue +101%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $526k · revenue +79%
  • RR
    RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $279k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • RL
    RUSSELL LIBRARY
    one grant, 2020 · $53k
  • MH
    MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
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.

1
Hartford Historic Preservation Foundation Inc

To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.

Philanthropy
2
Hartford Preservation Alliance Inc

Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.

Arts & Culture
3
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…

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4
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
5
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
The Hartford Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.

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7
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
10
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…

—
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Performs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ethel Walker Charitable and Educational Foundation. 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

118 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. 118 of the 171 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/118
Grantees still filing
86/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $325,000 · OtherCT HISTORICAL SOCIETYCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK: $159,433 · OtherHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $143,204 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $131,780 · OtherCT RIVERS COUNCIL BSA: $118,600 · OtherFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $113,623 · OtherCONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC: $131,113 · Other+82 more: $2,249,619 · Other+82 moreTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $595,763 · Arts & CultureTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HAL…THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $410,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIALCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $148,996 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORI…HILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $132,878 · Arts & CultureFIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC: $132,151 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $126,744 · Arts & CultureCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $110,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $91,242 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $756,685 · Arts & Culture+23 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $526,034 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $170,337 · EducationHARTFORD PUBL…UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $100,583 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…HARTFORD PROMISE INC: $55,000 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $39,160 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE: $34,994 · Education+8 more: $118,201 · Education+8 moreRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $279,379 · Recreation & SportsRIVERFRON…KNOX INC: $195,391 · Recreation & SportsKNOX INCELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $95,412 · Recreation & SportsELIZABETH…ALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION: $39,980 · Recreation & SportsALMADA LO…HORIZONS INC: $35,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $61,789 · Recreation & Sports+4 moreHARC INC: $91,943 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $85,945 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS INC: $81,000 · Human ServicesHARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON HARTFORD INC: $31,848 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $24,993 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $21,000 · Human Services+7 more: $55,515 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $114,508 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $101,812 · Youth DevelopmentHARTFORD PERFORMS INC: $61,930 · Youth Development4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC: $55,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $26,434 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,949 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $112,049 · HealthCORAM DEO INC: $28,405 · HealthHEALTH ASSISTANCE INTERVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK FOR CT HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE LIFE CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INC: $6,105 · Health+3 more: $5,963 · Health
Other$3,372,372Arts & Culture$2,504,459Education$1,044,309Recreation & Sports$706,951Human Services$443,244Youth Development$364,233Health$182,522

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $595,763 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $526,034 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $410,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $279,379 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetKNOX INC: $195,391 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $170,337 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $148,996 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $143,204 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $132,878 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetFIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC: $132,151 over 7y, 26% of budgetCONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC: $131,113 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $126,744 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $114,508 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $113,623 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $112,049 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $110,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $101,812 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $100,583 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $95,412 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $95,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHARC INC: $91,943 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $91,242 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCONNECTIKIDS INC: $88,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $85,945 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HORIZONS INC: $81,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $76,434 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $74,512 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCinestudio Inc: $72,290 over 4y, 12% of budgetAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC: $71,620 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetHARTFORD CHORALE INC: $70,000 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $69,907 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREAL ART WAYS INC: $68,650 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $68,513 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $67,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $63,843 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHARTFORD PERFORMS INC: $61,930 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $57,964 over 7y, 0.1% of budget4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC: $55,600 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHARTFORD PROMISE INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCORNELIA DE LANGE SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $51,176 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC: $51,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetSENIORS JOB BANK INC: $50,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetiQuilt Partnership Inc: $49,699 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER INC: $46,335 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER HARTFORD INC: $44,698 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPlayhouse Theatre Group Inc: $43,002 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTH PARK INN INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION: $39,980 over 4y, 1.2% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
  • Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOX INC ↗
  • Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGE CITY WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HARC INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Cinestudio Inc ↗
  • Who funds AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARTFORD CHORALE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗

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 f…J Walton Bissell Foun…Farmington Bank Commu…The Maximilian E and …Sbm Charitable Founda…Connecticut Humanitie…Aetna Foundation IncThe Zachs Family Foun…The Betty Knox Founda…United Way Inc United…Liberty Bank Foundati…Edward C & Ann T Robe…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT151.7× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation

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 William and Alice Mortensen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 430%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • IQuilt Partnership Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Harc Inc: 92% of income from government
  • Jewish Association for Community Living Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation: 77% of income from government
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc: 61% of income from government
  • The Open Hearth Association: 59% of income from government
  • Community Solutions Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Operation Fuel Incorporated: 51% of income from government
  • The Village for Families and Children: 50% of income from government
  • Noah Webster House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Building Healthy Families: 41% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Real Art Ways Inc: 38% of income from government
  • American School at Hartford for the Deaf: 32% of income from government
  • South Park Inn Inc: 29% of income from government
  • 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc: 25% of income from government
  • The Mark Twain Memorial: 22% of income from government
  • She Leads Justice Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
  • Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Ebony Horsewomen Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Coram Deo Inc: 17% 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
  • Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Natchaug Hospital Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Seniors Job Bank Inc: 8% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • New Horizons Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Hartford Performs Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Knox Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of Saint Joseph: 2% of income from government
  • Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
  • First Night Hartford Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hartford Marathon Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
43get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 171 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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