· Public charity
Arts Council of Greater New Haven Inc
The arts council champions a diverse, regional arts community where creativity thrives, believing that art, culture, and creative expression are fundamental human rights.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $209,975 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $595,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $385,825 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k14 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THEATRE | $15,000 |
| YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS | $15,000 |
| ELM CITY FREDDY FIXER PARADE | $12,000 |
| COLLAB | $11,250 |
| THE MUSIC NOTE KIDS INC | $11,250 |
| PARTNERSHIPS IN LEARNING AND CREATIVE EXPLORATION | $10,500 |
| ECOWORKS INC | $10,250 |
| MOVIMIENTO CULTURAL AFRO-CONTINENTAL INC | $10,000 |
| MAKEHAVEN | $10,000 |
| HUNEEBEE PROJECT | $9,750 |
| ARTE INC | $9,000 |
| JAMAICAN AMERICAN CONNECTION | $9,000 |
| BAOBAB TREE STUDIOS | $7,650 |
| NEW HAVEN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $7,500 |
| ARTS IN CT CORPS | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Education, arts and culture.
Educational arts and cultural programming for the community, with a focus on Latin American, immigrant, and underserved communities through exhibitions, artist residencies, workshops, youth arts education, and cross-cultural programs.
To provide developmental opportunities, build a collaborative network of local artists & supporters, and to foster creativity, teamwork, and a celebration
Art education
Haven provides the tools for artists to allow them to create and perform works of arts and to present to the public via live performances.
Art Produce is a community cultural center that connects artists, cultural organizations, schools, urban farmers and local businesses with public institutions and public culture. Their mission is to build community and foster civic…
We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.
The mission of Hartford's Cinestudio is to celebrate film as art and to provide diverse audiences an eclectic mix of the world's best cinema experiences, presented at the highest technical level in a classic movie palace-like setting.
Expand arts access for the under-served community.
Fine art and performing art exhibitions and educational programs.
Teaching theater arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts in Ct and the most unlike its peers is Jamaican American Connection Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLAB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS IN LEARNING AND CREATIVE EXPLORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECOWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKEHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HUNEEBEE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTE INC ↗
- Who funds JAMAICAN AMERICAN CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds A Broken Umbrella Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN CT ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN FESTIVALS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · International Association of New Haven Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts Council of Greater New Haven Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Arte Inc — 20% of income from government
- Connecticut Childrens Museum Inc — 20% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Haven Festivals Inc — 9% of income from government
- Huneebee Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- A Broken Umbrella Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Makehaven Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.