Connecticut · Nonprofit
ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT
ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT (Connecticut) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,122 to it, the largest being Pincus Family Foundation ($175,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $572k
What Arts for Learning Connecticut does
Mission
To inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher order thinking schools:higher order thinking (hot) schools is a whole-school, deep impact, teaching and learning program that incorporates a variety of arts learning activities and serves 10 diverse k-12 partner schools accross the state that primarily enroll students who are black, indigenous, or people of color, and/or who qualify for free or reduced price meals. An evaluation conducted by an external research partner demonstrates significant impact with regards to our three primary goals: improving student engagement, enriching school culture, and expanding teacher practice.
$342,333 spent$130,000 earned by the program27% of program spendingResponsive arts learning programs:each year Arts for Learning Connecticut provides thousands of individual arts learning programs (including cultural performances, creative workshops, extended residencies, and professional development) in schools, libraries, and other community institutions accross the state. During the 2022-23 school year, our teaching artists implemented 2,238 programs at 195 different partner institutions, serving 165,629 students, 5,330 educators, and 2,002 families. These programs are grounded in social and emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching, and support student self-expression and community building.
$857,581 spent$726,231 earned by the program69% of program spendingTeaching artist professional development:Arts for Learning Connecticut provides professional development for teaching artists in our core arts for learning framework (inclusive of social and emotional learning, culturally responsive teaching, universal design for learning, and the national core arts standards), as well as related pedagogies. We also recruit and prepare teaching artists from underrepresented communities through an expansive mentoring and training initiative that is designed to ensure that our teaching artists community and programs are reflective of the diversity of connecticut's students.
$48,060 spent$25,515 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,247,974.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $609k to $865k (+42%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 27% · 2022 6% · 2023 11% · 2024 20% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
John-Michael Parker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $36k → $271k.
8 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
29% 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 ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 59% · 2019 30% · 2020 70% · 2021 19% · 2022 21% · 2023 15% — 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
36% of ARTS FOR LEARNING 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
ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record — $150k federal, $886k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
- State Aid Grants$528k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$355k
- Educ & Training For Employees$3k
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 ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT
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
84% 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 ARTS FOR LEARNING 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT?
- ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT (Connecticut) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,122 to it, the largest being Pincus Family Foundation ($175,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $1,485,122 in grants to ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT?
- Pincus Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS FOR LEARNING 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing