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Travelers 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Bernard Project Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Greater Hartford Arts Council Incorporated | $600,000 |
| United Way Inc Dba United Way of Central & Northeastern Ct | $315,000 |
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $300,000 |
| Hartford Foundation for Public Giving | $250,000 |
| United Way Inc Dba United Way of Central & Northeastern Ct | $250,000 |
| Ctdata Collaborative Inc | $250,000 |
| Connecticut Science Center Inc | $225,000 |
| Hartford Promise Inc | $200,000 |
| Rebuilding Together Inc | $200,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford Inc | $120,000 |
| Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation | $100,000 |
| University of Connecticut Foundation Incorporated | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT | $100,000 |
| Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation Inc | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Travelers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 15 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $722k 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
- RIREADYCT INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +343% · 32% of their budget
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +12%
- CSCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +18%
- CWCAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +28%
AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERSone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…
To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieve Hartford Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Hartford Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 163 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 THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds READYCT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CTDATA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds UPPER ALBANY MAIN STREET PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NYBDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD LAND BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH HARTFORD PARTNERSHIP INC F/K/N NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS IN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
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 · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc · The Betty Knox 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 Travelers 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.
- Capital Workforce Partners Inc — 86% of income from government
- Girls for Technology Inc — 80% of income from government
- Connecticut Main Street Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- The Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated — 70% of income from government
- Readyct Inc — 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc — 44% of income from government
- Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
- Ctdata Collaborative — 35% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% 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
- Capital for Change Inc — 19% 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
- Levo International Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community First School Inc — 9% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Partners for Educational Leadershipinc — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Rise Network Inc — 2% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partnership for Strong Communities — 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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