· Public charity
Arts Connect International Inc
Growing creative justice through arts and culture.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against -89% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Foley Hoag Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arts Connect International Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Connect International Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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