· Public charity
Arts Connect International Inc
Growing creative justice through arts and culture.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $70,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $81,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,200 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABILITIES DANCE BOSTON | $10,000 |
| THE FLAVOR CONTINUES | $10,000 |
| MIDDAY MOVEMENT SERIES | $10,000 |
| ARTS & BUS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DUNAMIS | $10,000 |
| ART IN THE ANTILLES | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against -89% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DIDUNAMIS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +18%
ABILITIES DANCE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +170%- ABARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- AAARTS ADMINISTRATORS OF COLOR DMV NETWORKone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -89%
- SASTUDIO AT 550one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -95%
- SIStageSource Incone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
providing fiscal sponsorship, producing and professional development services for emerging artists, arts administrators and performing arts organizations throughout California.
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Foster professional development of creative artists
Cultivating a vibrant network of artists who create community and impact culture.
artist support services development and management services for the performing arts
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…
Amanda + James is a New York-based company dedicated to producing the work of emerging artists. We provide a space for this community to follow creative impulses, refine ideas into projects, and collaborate and learn from their peers. In…
Performing and visual arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Masscreative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Studio At 550. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 DUNAMIS INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Flavor Continues Corporation ↗
- Who funds ARTS ADMINISTRATORS OF COLOR DMV NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TINY SEED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASSCREATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO AT 550 ↗
- Who funds StageSource 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: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Foley Hoag Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · 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 Connect International 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.
- Masscreative Inc — 10% of income from government
- Studio at 550 — 10% of income from government
- StageSource Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Flavor Continues Corporation — 8% of income from government
- Abilities Dance Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dunamis Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tiny Seed Project Inc — 2% 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.
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