Connecticut · Nonprofit
ACT OF CONNECTICUT
ACT OF CONNECTICUT (Connecticut) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,133,744 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($3,327,285). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ACT OF CONNECTICUT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inclocalportfolio match
- Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Near and Far Association Incshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of ACT OF CONNECTICUT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $150k → $721k.
12 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACT OF CONNECTICUT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACT OF CONNECTICUT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 98% · 2020 44% · 2021 51% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of ACT OF CONNECTICUT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACT OF CONNECTICUT draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $629k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 36 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inclocalportfolio matchCT · funds 76 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundationlocalportfolio matchCT · funds 57 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Near and Far Association Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 117 organizations near you
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurentshatcher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederick Loewe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richenthal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ACT OF CONNECTICUT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $528k on record — $40k federal, $488k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
- State Aid Grants$252k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$236k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACT OF CONNECTICUT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACT OF CONNECTICUT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ACT OF CONNECTICUT?
- ACT OF CONNECTICUT (Connecticut) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,133,744 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($3,327,285). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACT OF CONNECTICUT have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $6,133,744 in grants to ACT OF CONNECTICUT, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACT OF CONNECTICUT?
- ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP is the largest funder on record, with $3,327,285 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACT OF CONNECTICUT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 36funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing