· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| The Conference of Churches I | $20,000 |
| Taste of the Caribbean Inc | $20,000 |
| Central CT Celtic Cultural Co | $15,000 |
| Connecticut Blues Society | $15,000 |
| Trinity College | $14,800 |
| Hartbeat Ensemble | $12,000 |
| Playhouse Theatre Group Inc | $12,000 |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of | $12,000 |
| Hartfords Got Talent Inc | $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 10% of Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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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.
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 84 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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