· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTFORD STAGE | $25,000 |
| THEATERWORKS | $25,000 |
| THEATERWORKS | $25,000 |
| STOWE CENTER FOR LITERARY ACTIVISM | $25,000 |
| HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $20,000 |
| GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL CLASSICS THEATRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| WOMEN COMPOSERS FESTIVAL OF HARTFORD | $10,000 |
| HILL-STEAD MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD PERFORMS | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT BALLET | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD CHORALE | $10,000 |
| KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 7% of Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation’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 94% — 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.
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
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
- 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%
- CBCONNECTICUT BLUES SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Performs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Times Fool Company. 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 76 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
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 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 Hartbeat Ensemble Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
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 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
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 Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation 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.
- 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
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.
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