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Connecticut Humanities Council Inc

Connecticut humanities champions the enduring value of public humanities in our lives and civil society.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$43MEnvironment$7.0MAnimals$3.0MScience & Tech$1.5MPublic Benefit$709kHousing & Shelter$558kHealth$529kEducation$460kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,106,408, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,291,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $184,742 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $545k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTICUT MUSEUM OF CULTURE AND H$100,000
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$100,000
HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC$75,000
CONNECTICUT LEAGUE OF HISTORY ORGAN$70,000
CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPOR$50,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK$50,000
CONNECTICUT HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC$32,500
CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INCORPOR$30,000
TOWN OF MANCHESTERMANCHESTER ARTS$25,000
CONNECTICUT MUSEUM OF CULTURE$25,000
BOOTHE MEMORIAL RAILWAY SOCIETY$25,000
102ND INFANTRY REGIMENT MUSEUM$25,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING IN$24,195
HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA$22,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEW HAVEN GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY C: $10k → 11%DUDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 9%QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $10k → 11%QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $8k → 11%DUDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 12%MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR H: $8k → 9%QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $11k → 9%FRIENDS OF MADISON YOUTH INC: $12k → 7%MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR H: $12k → 9%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $12k → 11%DUDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $20k → 9%HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN C: $11k → 9%OUTCT: $6k → 9%FRIENDS OF MADISON YOUTH INC: $8k → 12%MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR H: $10k → 12%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHME: $108k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Connecticut Humanities Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 61%.

Connecticut Humanities Council Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 39% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 562 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

562
187

Total granted

$56M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+2%

Still filing today

75%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TM
    THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +81%
  • MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +7%
  • CS
    CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • NM
    NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $167k · revenue +6%
  • TC
    THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $144k · revenue -29%
  • EO
    EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $121k · revenue -39%
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.

04Its 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
Winchester Historical Society
—
2
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Hartford Dance Collective

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…

Arts & Culture
4
New Hartford Historical Society Inc

To exhibit and preserve materials related to the history of new hartford, ct.

Arts & Culture
5
West Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Concerts At the Point Inc

To present concerts & musical training

Arts & Culture
7
Lost in New Haven Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Haverstraw Brick Museum
Unclassified
9
Sandwich Historical Society
Arts & Culture
10
Shoreline Theatrical Arts

To provide opportunities for aspiring connecticut youth to work with world-class professional artists on the highest-caliber productions.

—
11
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Connecticut Arts Council Foundation Inc

To promote education in the development , promotion, of the arts in connecticut

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Center for Performing Arts Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

551 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

38
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
109
Early backer (in before they grew)
525/551
Grantees still filing
313/551
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $5,825,655 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INCMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $3,827,317 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INCCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $3,095,255 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INCTHE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: $1,299,005 · Arts & Culture+130 more: $19,515,563 · Arts & Culture+130 moreSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,050,000 · AnimalsSEA RESEARCH FOUNDAT…CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC: $3,037,600 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGIC…CONNECTICUT LEAGUE OF HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS: $1,201,088 · OtherCONNECTICUT…MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBAL NATION: $665,185 · OtherMASHANTUCKE…EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY INC: $321,738 · OtherEVERYDAY DE…THE CONNECTICUT FORUM INC: $202,927 · OtherLITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $195,426 · Other+40 more: $2,502,394 · Other+40 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $403,477 · EducationConnecticut Explored Inc: $296,269 · EducationPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $149,627 · EducationCONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $91,100 · EducationURU THE RIGHT TO BE INC: $74,300 · EducationCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES INC: $63,100 · EducationTHE NAUGATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $60,800 · EducationYale University: $55,300 · EducationBILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $49,299 · EducationFairfield University: $45,497 · Education+1 more: $40,387 · EducationEARTHPLACE INC: $270,347 · EnvironmentDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER: $180,178 · EnvironmentBARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC: $117,400 · EnvironmentYale-China Association Inc: $182,000 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CONNECTICUT INC: $41,000 · InternationalTHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION OF GREATER WATERBURY CT INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC: $46,500 · Community ImprovementStonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc: $39,700 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$33,562,795Animals$9,087,600Other$5,088,758Education$1,329,156Environment$567,925International$223,000Community Improvement$186,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,050,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $5,825,655 over 4y, 17% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $3,827,317 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $3,095,255 over 4y, 14% of budgetCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC: $3,037,600 over 3y, 28% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: $1,299,005 over 8y, 20% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEAGUE OF HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS: $1,201,088 over 7y, 29% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $1,095,617 over 8y, 29% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $821,135 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $748,805 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $498,800 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $456,171 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $424,435 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $410,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $403,477 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $392,500 over 4y, 94% of budgetTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $387,400 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $380,100 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $373,473 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC: $365,783 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $362,198 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $356,155 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC: $340,454 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $331,395 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetEVERYDAY DEMOCRACY INC: $321,738 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetConnecticut Explored Inc: $296,269 over 4y, 62% of budgetTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $277,634 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetNEW HAVEN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $274,600 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $270,347 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $266,329 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $265,313 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $264,743 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC: $238,200 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC: $228,957 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT CULTURAL COALITION: $222,450 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHEATERWORKS INC: $220,700 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $214,705 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetNORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC: $210,522 over 3y, 21% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC: $203,546 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT FORUM INC: $202,927 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $199,285 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetLITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $195,426 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC: $195,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $194,200 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPILOBOLUS INC: $190,700 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetYale-China Association Inc: $182,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER: $180,178 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT: $169,362 over 6y, 3.4% 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 Trust for…Edward C & Ann T Robe…Greater Hartford Arts…Hartford Foundation f…The William and Alice…The Connecticut Commu…The Maximilian E and …Chelsea Groton Founda…Newalliance Foundatio…The Scripps Family Fu…American Savings Foun…The Community Foundat…
Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation IncCT113.9× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Connecticut Humanities Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connecticut Humanities Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
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 759 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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