· Public charity
Connecticut Humanities Council Inc
Connecticut humanities champions the enduring value of public humanities in our lives and civil society.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $1,106,408 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,291,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $184,742 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $100,000 |
| CONNECTICUT MUSEUM OF CULTURE AND H | $100,000 |
| HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC | $75,000 |
| CONNECTICUT LEAGUE OF HISTORY ORGAN | $70,000 |
| CONNECTICUT PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK | $50,000 |
| CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPOR | $50,000 |
| CONNECTICUT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC | $32,500 |
| CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPOR | $30,000 |
| 102ND INFANTRY REGIMENT MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| CONNECTICUT MUSEUM OF CULTURE | $25,000 |
| TOWN OF MANCHESTERMANCHESTER ARTS | $25,000 |
| BOOTHE MEMORIAL RAILWAY SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING IN | $24,195 |
| HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA | $22,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Connecticut Humanities Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +7% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
562 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 533 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- TMTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC4× · 2021–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +81%
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC7× · 2018–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +7%- CSCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- NMNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $167k · revenue +6%
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATREone grant, 2022 · $144k · revenue -29%
- EOEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $121k · revenue -39%
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.
To preserve and perpetuate the great traditions of classical music through a public performance season, educational programs, and by showcasing the excellence of regional and international talent.
The primary objectives and purpose of the Hartford Dance Collective (The Dance Collective) is to provide performance opportunities in dance for female choreographers and to share professional contemporary dance with new audiences by…
To exhibit and preserve materials related to the history of new hartford, ct.
West Hartford Symphony Orchestra serves as a community orchestra, primarily for the benefit of the residents of West Hartford, CT providing opportunity for local amateur musicians to rehearse and perform before a community audience.
To present concerts & musical training
This museum presents a graphic documentary history of new haven, from its settlement in 1638 to the present day, with artifacts and relics from the past through the present.
To provide opportunities for aspiring connecticut youth to work with world-class professional artists on the highest-caliber productions.
To promote education in the development , promotion, of the arts in connecticut
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Center for Performing Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Volume Two. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
551 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 551 of the 759 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEAGUE OF HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Explored Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT CULTURAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK 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 Trust for Historic Preservation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc
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 Connecticut Humanities Council 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.
- The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Barnum Museum Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc — 75% of income from government
- Connecticut Arts Alliance Inc — 60% of income from government
- Southeastern Connecticut Cultural Coalition — 56% of income from government
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Artreach Inc — 54% of income from government
- Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology — 47% of income from government
- Noah Webster House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum of Norwalk Inc — 43% of income from government
- Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc — 41% of income from government
- Thames River Heritage Park Foundation Inc — 41% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc — 35% of income from government
- 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc — 25% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc — 18% of income from government
- Branford Electric Railway Assoc Inc — 17% of income from government
- Center Stage Theatre Inc — 16% of income from government
- James Baldwin Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- Lutz Children's Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc — 14% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Project Music Inc — 14% of income from government
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- I-Park Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Inc — 9% of income from government
- Harriet U Allyn Testamentary Trust — 9% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Best Video Film and Cultural Center — 8% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ridgefield Historical Society Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Litchfield Historical Society — 3% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Performs Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for World Peace Inc — 2% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wpkn Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- Landmark Community Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- India Cultural Center of Greenwich Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shakesperience Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Ballet Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Norwalk Youth Symphony Inc — 2% of income from government
- Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Westport School of Music — 1% of income from government
- Lyme Art Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- American Mural Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Arts Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Danbury Music Centre — 1% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wilton Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Farmington Valley Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Ballet School — 1% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
- Mystic Ballet Inc — 1% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven Ballet — 1% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Guilford Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tri-State Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bill Memorial Library — 0% of income from government
- Fairfield Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- Suzuki Music School of Westport Inc — 0% of income from government
- Curtain Call Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Haven Center for Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 0% 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.