Connecticut · Nonprofit
HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS
HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,190,485 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH M BURT TRUST U ART 16 ($591,855). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $615k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Hartford Neighborhood Centers does
Mission
To be an educational, cultural, social and recreational "safe have" of opportunity for the diverse ethnic populations of Greater Hartford
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provides child care for children ages 3-5 and a summertime program to the countryside. Provides child care for children ages 3-5 and a learning environment for children to transition to Kindergarten. Includes basic human needs and other programs
$559,541 spent$588,398 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $559,541.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $3.1M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 47% · 2019 58% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 63% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Cora Mercer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $29k → $149k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 8 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 NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 38% · 2019 65% · 2020 42% · 2021 51% · 2022 52% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS?
- HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,190,485 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH M BURT TRUST U ART 16 ($591,855). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,190,485 in grants to HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS?
- ELIZABETH M BURT TRUST U ART 16 is the largest funder on record, with $591,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARTFORD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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