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Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc
Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,686 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $286k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $237k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc does
Mission
The Afro-Caribbean Cultural Center empowers Afro-Caribbean Black and Tano communities through the arts education and activism. This includes strategies that foster youth education & self-determination deepening community connections and preserving Afro-Latino Black & Tano cultures. While building our organizational capacity to uplift our community and celebrate our rich heritage with confidence and purpose across generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Taino Learning Community: A membership driven learning community of individuals who have Taino decendency and heritage to learn about the culture traditions and roots of Taino Culture.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants12% of program spendingCuyo: Summer and Fall Youth Leadership Program for youth ages 11 - 17 years old. Providing youth Restorative & Social Justice Sports Arts and Theater programming year round to help improve and build confidency skills and knowledge.
$68,000 spentof which $38,500 as grants41% of program spendingPalante Theater Company: Palante Theater unapologetically presents opportunities to create produce and perform representations of the arts. Palante through the arts seeks to provide visibility for various marginalized communities i.e. Afro-Caribbean Black Latino LGTQIA+ and Youth.
$3,987 spent$20,875 earned by the program2% of program spendingC.A.C.I.Q.U.E.: exists to share our belief that restorative justice peace circle process is a great tool for self governance and can be used to support the contributions of all community members in all of the aspects of life in a community; governance problem-solving addressing harm celebration etc.
$0 spent0% of program spendingMultigenerational Cultural Education: Exists to position ACCC as the leader and expert in Afro-Caribbean Black & Taino culture through the arts workshops exhibitions and speaker series throughout Connecticut.
$0 spent0% of program spendingGreater Waterbury Puerto Rican Day Parade & Festival: Exists to celebrate and highlight the rich Puerto Rican diaspora in Greater Waterbury through planning and executing of the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade & Festival.
$75,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants45% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $166,987.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $32k to $100k (+217%).
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.
69% of Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Nelson Rafael Feliciano Roman
President CEO
Board chair
Nicole Delgado
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $34k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$61k
- State Aid Grants$23k
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 Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc?
- Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,686 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $236,686 in grants to Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc?
- South Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 9 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing