· Public charity
Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc
We exist to be a catalyst for the arts and promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| iQuilt Partnership | $51,400 |
| Greater Htfd Chamber of Comme | $48,000 |
| Hartford Public Library | $39,000 |
| The Hartford Dance Collective | $26,800 |
| Hartford Jazz Society | $25,000 |
| CLARO Inc | $20,000 |
| Taste of the Caribbean Inc | $20,000 |
| The Conference of Churches I | $20,000 |
| Central CT Celtic Cultural Co | $15,000 |
| Connecticut Blues Society | $15,000 |
| Trinity College | $14,800 |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of | $12,000 |
| Playhouse Theatre Group Inc | $12,000 |
| Hartbeat Ensemble | $12,000 |
| San Juan Center-Siempre Palan | $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 10% of Greater Hartford Arts 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.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- HJHARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +62% · 75% of their budget
- TITHEATERWORKS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $300k · revenue +8%
- TRThe Riseup Group Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $263k · revenue +282% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- AOART OF TAOone grant, 2022 · $50k
- EFEBK FRAMING AND ARTS SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $25k
- KIKNOX INCone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -10%
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.
Performing operas for the public
Ballet hartford, inc. produces programs that incorporate historical, classical ballet and new, artistically diverse choreogrphic works that provide their audiences with performances that uphold tradition and celebrate innovation.
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…
We exist to be a catalyst for the arts and promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford.
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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…
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.
The Garde Arts Center, non-profit professional center for the performing arts, strives to engage, educate, entertain, inspire, and enrich the region of greater New London County, by protecting, operating, and enhancing the historic Garde…
Organize an annual multi-cultural festival in Waterbury, CT, celebrating music, food and dance from around the world.
Presenting musical plays to the public
Primary purpose is to stimulate, promote, teach and develop interest in performing arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Performs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Claro Inc. 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 34 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 84 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 JAZZ SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds The Riseup Group Inc ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HARTFORD FESTIVAL OF JAZZ INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC ↗
- Who funds NIGHT FALL INC ↗
- Who funds Hartbeat Ensemble Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR COMM ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds iQuilt Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
- Who funds CLARO INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF MANCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds SONIA PLUMB DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST INDIAN INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Theatre Group Inc ↗
- Who funds TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC ↗
- Who funds CUATRO PUNTOS INC ↗
- Who funds Noah Webster House 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Preston E W Tr Uw Ewp Memorial · Aetna Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
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 Greater Hartford Arts 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.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
- Noah Webster House Inc — 46% 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
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Friends of Keney Park Inc — 12% 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
- Vernon Community Arts Center Inc — 5% 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 Performs Inc — 3% of income from government
- Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cuatro Puntos Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Ballet Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Farmington Valley Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- First Night Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Opera House Players 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
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.