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Arts Connect International Inc

Growing creative justice through arts and culture.

$81k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$70k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$838k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Arts Connect International Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$70k14%
FY20247$70k0%
FY20237$95k29%
FY202210$97k100%
FY20211$25kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$315kEnvironment$23kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dunamis Inc$48,00047%
Abilities Dance Inc$42,00045%
Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc$42,00041%
The Flavor Continues Corporation$42,00048%
Midday Movement Series$28,6253n/a
Arts Administrators of Color Dmv Network$25,00012%
Tiny Seed Project Inc$22,50021%
Masscreative Inc$22,00021%
Studio at 550$15,000111%
StageSource Inc$12,00013%
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All grantees of Arts Connect International Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dunamis Inc$48,00047%
Abilities Dance Inc$42,00045%
Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc$42,00041%
The Flavor Continues Corporation$42,00048%
Midday Movement Series$28,6253n/a
Arts Administrators of Color Dmv Network$25,00012%
Tiny Seed Project Inc$22,50021%
Masscreative Inc$22,00021%
Studio at 550$15,000111%
StageSource Inc$12,00013%
Danza Organica via Marsha Parilla$9,5001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arts Connect International Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDunamis Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetAbilities Dance Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetArts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Flavor Continues Corporation: $42,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetArts Administrators of Color Dmv Network: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTiny Seed Project Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMasscreative Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetStudio at 550: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetStageSource Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Barr FoundationMA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Foley Hoag Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Arts Connect International Inc?

Find your warmest path to Arts Connect International Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Arts Connect International Inc

How much does Arts Connect International Inc give?
Arts Connect International Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $70,000, out of $81,200 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Arts Connect International Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Environment (6%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Arts Connect International Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Dunamis Inc ($48k), Abilities Dance Inc ($42k), Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc ($42k).
Does Arts Connect International Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Connect International Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Foley Hoag Foundation.
Where is Arts Connect International Inc based?
Arts Connect International Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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