Connecticut · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD (Connecticut) receives grants from 234 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,697,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,601,313). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD's funding base is broadening — from 43 funders to 87 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
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.
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 87 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.6M.
29 of 234 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 234 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
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 26% · 2019 39% · 2020 23% · 2021 19% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 234 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 117 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 86 organizations that share your funders
- Northeastern Universityshared fundersMA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 112 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 131 organizations that share your funders
- Brown Universityshared fundersRI · backs 86 organizations that share your funders
- University of Delawareshared fundersDE · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Trustees of Tufts Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 116 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47.6M on record — $34.6M federal, $13.0M state.
- Department of Education$24.1M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$7.9M
- Small Business Administration$1.5M
- National Science Foundation$883k
- Department of Health and Human Services$173k
- Department of Defense$71k
- CT$12.9M
- NJ$111k
- DE$2k
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 UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Women's Advancement Initiative · exempt
- Hartford Art School Endowment Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust(12) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD?
- UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD (Connecticut) receives grants from 234 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,697,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,601,313). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD have?
- IRS filings report 234 organizations giving $25,697,113 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD, 127 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,601,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD 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.
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 234funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing