· Private foundation
Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STOWE CENTER FOR LITERARY ACTIVISM | $25,000 |
| HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| THEATERWORKS | $25,000 |
| HARTFORD STAGE | $25,000 |
| THEATERWORKS | $25,000 |
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $20,000 |
| GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL CLASSICS THEATRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| HILL-STEAD MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD CHORALE | $10,000 |
| WOMEN COMPOSERS FESTIVAL OF HARTFORD | $10,000 |
| BALLET HARTFORD | $10,000 |
| JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT BALLET | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD PERFORMS | $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.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation’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, 94%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +75%
- HSHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +6%
- TITHEATERWORKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TATHE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +13%
- TMTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +36%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDHARTFORD ART SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Opera Theater of Connecticut mission is to provide professional artists with the vital opportunity to realize their talents in the practice of their crafts to provide access to the Performing Arts to a wide audience by presenting high…
Performing operas for the public
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 promote education in the development , promotion, of the arts in connecticut
Perform high quality choral masterworks for the public.
To present concerts & musical training
Teaching ballet and dance movement through workshops, videos, classroom instruction and stage productions.
Connecticut Theatre Exchange exists to bring together theatre artists from various backgrounds and identities to support their process of developing new projects and new skills in a nurturing environment that is both accessible and…
We exist to be a catalyst for the arts and promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford.
Primary purpose is to stimulate, promote, teach and develop interest in performing arts.
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…
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 76 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 HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VIRTUOSI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Theatre Group Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PERFORMS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds NIGHT FALL INC ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WEST HARTFORD ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CLASSICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CUATRO PUNTOS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SUMMERFEST INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT GUITAR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERT SCHWEITZER ORGAN FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds Hartbeat Ensemble 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: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Partners in Action Inc: 90% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc: 38% of income from government
- The Artists Collective Inc: 35% 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
- Night Fall Inc: 8% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc: 4% of income from government
- Capital Classics Inc: 3% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc: 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
- Hartford Performs Inc: 3% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc: 2% of income from government
- Ballet Hartford Inc: 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
- Cuatro Puntos Inc: 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph: 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Ballet Inc: 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- First Night Hartford Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Riseup Group Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: 1% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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