New York · Nonprofit
ARTSCONNECTION INC
ARTSCONNECTION INC (New York) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,172,717 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($709,425). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Artsconnection Inc does
Mission
To address the educational challenges for the 21st century, artsconnection's research-based arts programs create socially just learning environments. Our programs support literacy, communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. Artsconnection's partnerships include and strengthen the diverse voices of new york city's children and youth, cultivating their arts and academic skills for success in a changing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In-school and professional learning programs in fy 25, artsconnection's faculty of 90+ teaching artists worked with staff to successfully deepen our work in schools. We worked with students, educators, and families from 64 schools across the city through dance, theater, music, media, puppetry, and visual arts, serving 23,944 students directly and 14,550 students and families indirectly. Instruction involved 15-30 sessions for classes on one or more grade levels with a varied mix of family events, performances, and/or professional development workshops for educators at each site. Artsconnection's professional learning programs provide a variety of workshops in-person or virtual and online resources to help strengthen teaching and learning for adults working with young people and interested in integrating the arts into their work. Our professional learning website https://teachwithartsconnection.org/ is filled with free activities, resources, and tools for educators and anyone working with young people. In fy25, we served 2,217 educators across a total of 89 workshops.
$2,110,111 spentof which $1,090 as grants$1,422,469 earned by the program72% of program spendingTeen programs we worked with 809 students coming from 144 different schools during artsconnection's out-of-school-time teen programs. Programs provided opportunities for artistic expression, experiential learning, leadership development, and building career paths in the creative industries. Teens has their works framed for professional exhibitions, learned to build critical analysis skills in the arts, while creating original written, visual, performative, and/or multimedia work in response; studying curation and producing an art exhibition; individual skill-building in the arts; paid internships and apprenticeships; and an arts-focused college and career readiness program.
$823,584 spentof which $54,451 as grants28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,933,695.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.5M to $1.6M (−37%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 17% · 2019 26% · 2020 26% · 2021 37% · 2022 43% · 2023 31% · 2024 8% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of ARTSCONNECTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Rachel Watts
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $425k → $1.3M.
14 of 109 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 ARTSCONNECTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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
ARTSCONNECTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
31% 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 ARTSCONNECTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 44% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2023 21% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of ARTSCONNECTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
70% of ARTSCONNECTION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.
Against its field
ARTSCONNECTION INC's funding base is broadening — from 30 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARTSCONNECTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Education$2.9M
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 ARTSCONNECTION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 ARTSCONNECTION 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 ARTSCONNECTION INC?
- ARTSCONNECTION INC (New York) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,172,717 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($709,425). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTSCONNECTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $6,172,717 in grants to ARTSCONNECTION INC, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTSCONNECTION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $709,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTSCONNECTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 109 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