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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.

$596k
Granted FY2022
23
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2022 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $209,975, the rows itemized in this filing. The $595,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $385,825 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k14 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$605k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC$7,500
A BROKEN UMBRELLA THEATRE$7,500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
Expressiones Cultural Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Artworks Community Arts Education C
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4
Play Incubation Collective

To provide developmental opportunities, build a collaborative network of local artists & supporters, and to foster creativity, teamwork, and a celebration

Arts & Culture
5
Westport Art Group Inc

Art education

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6
Haven Theatre Company Nfp

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Art Produce

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…

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8
Haven Arts Theatre

We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.

Arts & Culture
9
Cinestudio Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Brooklyn Youth Company Inc

Teaching theater arts

Arts & Culture
11
Creative Arts Center of North Oakland County

Fine art and performing art exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Connecticut Arts Alliance Inc

To foster public education and awareness of the arts, promote the value of all achievement of the arts industry and its impact of the state's quality of life, advocate to ensure the arts are central to the life of connecticut, and work to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts in Ct; 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.
03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOVIMIENTO CULTURAL AFRO-CONTINENTAL INC: $16,000 · OtherMOVIMIENTO CULTURAL AFRO-CONTINENTAL INCCOLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS INC: $15,000 · OtherCOLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS INCELM CITY FREDDY FIXER PARADE COMMITTEE: $12,000 · OtherELM CITY FREDDY FIXER PARADE COMMITTEETHE MUSIC NOTE KIDS INC: $11,250 · OtherTHE MUSIC NOTE KIDS INCBAOBAB TREE STUDIOS: $7,650 · OtherBAOBAB TREE STUDIOSNEW HAVEN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $7,500 · OtherNEW HAVEN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INCAMERICAN BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: $6,000 · OtherAMERICAN BAROQUE ORCHESTRACELEBRATE SHELTON: $5,325 · OtherCELEBRATE SHELTONPARTNERSHIPS IN LEARNING AND CREATIVE EXPLORATION INC: $10,500 · Arts & CulturePARTNERSHIPS IN LEARNING AND CREATI…ARTE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureARTE INCJAMAICAN AMERICAN CONNECTION INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureJAMAICAN AMERICAN CONNECTION INCARTS IN CT: $7,500 · Arts & CultureARTS IN CTCONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INCARTSPACE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureARTSPACE INCA Broken Umbrella Theatre Inc: $7,500 · Arts & CultureA Broken Umbrella Theatre IncMUSIC HAVEN INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC HAVEN INCECOWORKS INC: $10,250 · EnvironmentECOWORKS I…HUNEEBEE PROJECT INC: $9,750 · EnvironmentHUNEEBEE P…Youth Entrepreneurs Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLAB INCORPORATED: $11,250 · Community ImprovementMAKEHAVEN INC: $10,000 · EducationNEW HAVEN FESTIVALS INC: $7,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$80,725Arts & Culture$66,000Environment$20,000Youth Development$15,000Community Improvement$11,250Education$10,000Recreation & Sports$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOLLAB INCORPORATED: $11,250 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS IN LEARNING AND CREATIVE EXPLORATION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 33% of budgetECOWORKS INC: $10,250 over 1y, 38% of budgetMAKEHAVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHUNEEBEE PROJECT INC: $9,750 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetARTE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetARTS IN CT: $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARTSPACE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMUSIC HAVEN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HAVEN FESTIVALS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

Connecticut Humanitie…Newalliance Foundatio…The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Yale UniversityWilliam Caspar Graust…International Associa…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Connecticut Humanities Council IncCT27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Council of Greater New Haven Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Greater New Haven Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $392k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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