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HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE
HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,209,395 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,682,730). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $82M
What Hartford International University for Religion and Peace does
Mission
Hartford International University for Religion and Peace serves god: by preparing leaders, students, scholars and religious institutions to understand and live faithfully in today's multi-faith and pluralistic world; by teaching, research, informing the public and engaging persons in dialogue; by affirming the particularities of faith and social context while openly exploring differences and commonalities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hartford International University for Religion and Peace's (hiu) degree and certificate programs serve approximately 1200 persons from many religious traditions and geographic areas in the greater hartford regions, as well as nationally and internationally. We offer over 70 courses a year, both credit and non-credit, in religion, theology and ministerial practice, focusing on the three abrahamic religions (christianity, islam, and judaism). These classes meet weekly for two semesters of 15 weeks, or intensive weekend and weeklong modules in january and june sessions. By offering these courses and academic programs hiu hopes to foster interfaith dialogue and the development of effective religious leaders both here and abroad. Our mission is to "serve god by preparing leaders, students, scholars and religious institutions" for faithful living in a pluralistic world. Hiu also offers educational outreach programs. In the 2023-24 academic year, hiu offered 24 edcuational outreach programs. Attendance at each event ranged from 20 to 120 people. The objective of the program is to serve core constituencies and attract new people.
$5,231,711 spentof which $645,388 as grants$1,631,344 earned by the program100% of program spendingHartford International University for Religion and Peace's hartford institute for religion research produces research and resources that support leadership and congregational development as practical, theological activity. Our research uses the perspectives and methods of the social sciences to study religious leadership, and religious organizations and their social/cultural context. Our resources are published both traditionaly and online. Our work is externally funded by, typically, multiyear grants. We currently have about 6 active grants institution-wide.
$1,082 spent0% of program spendingScholarly journals the muslim world is an academic publication on the study of isalm and christian-muslim relations that comes out four times per year. It is owned and edited by Hartford International University for Religion and Peace (hiu), and published by wiley blackwell. The muslim world has paid subscribers via the wiley-blackwell sales program to library consortia and institutions had access through philanthropic programs unassociated with hiu. The muslim world seeks wide distribution of its journal to libraries around the world, and as large a readership as possible. We engage in no discriminatory practices regarding who has access to the muslim world, nor who is able to submit articles for possible publication. We do offer gratis subscriptions to libraries in developing countries upon their request through philanthropic licensing deals arranged through wiley-blackwell. Our goal in the upcoming year is to expand our market in asia, china, india, eastern europe and south america. Neither the publishers nor hiu, as editor of the muslim world deal directly with students in the publication of this journal, unless they have chosen to submit articles for consideration. All…
$397 spent$12,482 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,233,190.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $61M to $83M (+36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
23% of HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Clare Feldman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $389k → $1.1M.
13 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 47% · 2019 60% · 2020 49% · 2021 97% · 2022 44% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $652k on record — $602k federal, $50k state.
- Department of Education$592k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Seventy Seven Sherman St Preservation Trust Inc · exempt
- Fund for Interfaith Understanding Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (8) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE?
- HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,209,395 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,682,730). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $11,209,395 in grants to HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,682,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing