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Hartford Hospital

Hartford, CT · EIN 06-0646668. Reported 93 grants totalling $2,364,824 to 55 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

55organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$2,364,824granted, 2020-2023
54%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Hartford Hospital, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 54% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $29,012; the smallest was $5,496 and the largest $157,464. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
41 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
26 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants

1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $50,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Hartford Healthcare at Home IncWethersfield, CT$254,924222021
American Heart Association IncDallas, TX$178,333332023
Readyct IncHartford, CT$157,464112022
Greater Hartford Community Foundation IncHartford, CT$145,800112021
Connecticut Science Center IncHartford, CT$132,150442023
Connecticut Cancer Foundation IncOld Saybrook, CT$117,450442023
University of Saint JosephWest Hartford, CT$81,157432023
The Connecticut Golf Foundation IncCromwell, CT$78,080222023
Health Assistance Intervention Education Network for ConnecticutEast Berlin, CT$75,000442023
Connecticut Brain Tumor AllianceincAvon, CT$73,000442023
Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Inc (sina)Hartford, CT$71,250332022
Trinity CollegeHartford, CT$67,315112023
Town of NewingtonNewington, CT$67,000442023
City of HartfordHartford, CT$57,229112022
Amistad Center for Art & Culture IncHartford, CT$55,000222022
Haitian Health Foundation IncNorwich, CT$50,000112020
Hispanic Health Council IncHartford, CT$45,000112023
Max Cares Foundation IncHartford, CT$41,133332023
Ron Foley Pancreatic Cancer Foundation IncWest Hartford, CT$41,000442023
Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation IncEast Hartford, CT$37,952332023
Hartford Symphony Orchestra IncHartford, CT$30,000112022
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtHartford, CT$30,000222023
Junior Achievement of Southwest New EnglandHartford, CT$28,800222023
The Riseup Group IncHartford, CT$25,593112023
Audacy Operations IncCleveland, OH$25,000112022
Chabad House of Conn IncWest Hartford, CT$25,000112021
Connecticut Historical SocietyHartford, CT$25,000112020
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundBoston, MA$25,000222023
Project Purple IncSeymour, CT$25,000112023
United Way Inc Dba United Way of Central & Northeastern CtHartford, CT$25,000112020
Hands on Hartford IncHartford, CT$23,560222023
National Kidney FoundationHamden, CT$20,000112020
Hartford Promise IncHartford, CT$19,500222023
Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford IncHartford Ct, CT$17,500112023
Camelo CommunicationOviedo, FL$15,976222022
Connecticut Childrens Foundation IncHartford, CT$12,464112023
Connecticut Forum IncHartford, CT$12,000112022
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$10,000112021
Angel of Edgewood IncHartford, CT$10,000112023
Arthritis Foundation IncAtlanta, GA$10,000112022
Connecticut Foodshare IncWallingford, CT$10,000112023
Emanuel Lutheran ChurchHartford, CT$10,000112023
Forge City WorksHartford, CT$10,000112023
Grace Lutheran ChurchHartford, CT$10,000112023
Mercado Popular LLCHartford, CT$10,000112023
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer FoundationDallas, TX$10,000112021
Zero Prostate CancerAlexandria, VA$10,000112022
Parkinsons Foundation IncNew York, NY$8,000112023
American Cancer Society IncAtlanta, GA$7,500112022
Colon Cancer Coalition FoundationMinneapolis, MN$7,500112020
International Hartford LtdHartford, CT$7,000112020
Crohns & Colitis Foundation IncNew York, NY$6,148112022
Hometown Foundation IncCheshire, CT$6,050112023
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut IncHartford, CT$5,500112023
The Joyce D & Andrew J Mandell Greater Hartford Jewish CommunityWest Hartford, CT$5,496112023

20 of 55 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 8 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Diseases & Disorders
8 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
4 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202015$442,799$20,000
202120$612,587$20,000
202226$653,894$13,750
202332$655,544$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

87% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Connecticut
$2.1M
Texas
$188K
Ohio
$25K
Massachusetts
$25K
Georgia
$18K
Florida
$16K
New York
$14K
District of Columbia
$10K

Down to the city

Hartford, CT
$1.1M
Wethersfield, CT
$255K
Dallas, TX
$188K
West Hartford, CT
$153K
Old Saybrook, CT
$117K
Cromwell, CT
$78K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc28 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund28 shared recipientsHartford Foundation for Public Giving27 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc23 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc20 shared recipientsLincoln Financial Foundation Inc16 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hartford Hospital's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 80 Seymour Street, Hartford, CT, 06106.

EIN 06-0646668 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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