Grant Awards - runners

2011 Grant Awards 

The Fund for Greater Hartford committed over $700,000 to the Greater Hartford community in 2011. The vast majority of grants were in our four major priority areas. We gave out $100,000 in the Arts, with half going to the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the other half going to community groups. We paid $105,939 in Community Development grants in Hartford, New Britain, and Middletown.

Education grants totaled $195,500, with most going for educational enhancements, and our largest grant going to support the Achievement First charter school in Hartford. As always, the largest and most inclusive priority area was Health and Social Services. We committed $69,600 in this area, with grants going to a wide range of non-profits doing exceptional work in their communities.

We continued to commit money to summer programs ($33,000 in 2011) that reach a large number of children for the majority of the summer. Finally, we renewed our support for Hispanic Scholarship Program, which provides money to three secondary schools to help underwrite the tuition for Latino/a students from Hartford.


Grantmaking Statistics 2006-2011

GRANTS AWARDED - BY YEAR

Year

Total Grants

# of Grants

Average Size

2011

$742,348

81

$9,165

2010

$694,738

70

$9,925

2009

$741,000

77

$9,623

2008

$775,623

78

$9,944

2007

$716,727

68

$10,540

2006

$686,516

68

$10,096


PERCENTAGE OF GRANT DOLLARS DISTRIBUTED BY PRIORITY AREA

Priority Area

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

Arts*

14%

17%

21%

19%

22%

18%

Community Development

21%

16%

11%

6%

13%

26%

Education

27%

23%

28%

38%

23%

34%

Health and Social Services

38%

44%

40%

37%

41%

22%

       *50% of our arts money goes to the Greater Hartford Arts Council

PERCENTAGE OF GRANT DOLLARS DISTRIBUTED BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA SERVED 

Geographical  Area

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

Hartford

52%

51%

55%

46%

49%

47%

Greater Hartford

30%

23%

31%

36%

34%

36%

New Britain

10%

16%

3%

9%

5%

10%

Middletown

6%

4%

7%

5%

8%

3%

Enfield


1%

1%



<1%

East of the River

2%

4%

<1%

4%

3%

1%

West of the River


1%

2%

<1%

2%

2%

Statewide



3%