Connecticut · Nonprofit
BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC
BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,200 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($140,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $497k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $332k
What Bridgeport Artscultural Council Inc does
Mission
To promote and educate local artists. To serve as a resource for creatives-connecting them to each other and opportunities.We champion the arts and the artists not just for arts own sake but as as an engine for growth and prosperity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
This organization had a series of successful downtown thursday events.a collaboration of events included the youth, and the initiative youth workforce. New partnerships efforts were formed to repaint peacock alley,the promotion of local businesses in downtown bridgeport and painting a mural on the charles f greene community homes. All to improve opportunities
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In fiscal year 2023 and 2024 a new board was formed. Relaunched Downtown Thursday concerts, developed plans for Junior Producers Youth Workforce programs.Established new partnerships with new Skateport where we designed and painted a ground mural to highlight and compliment the roller skating park Downtown Bridgeport
$11,860 spentof which $350,000 as grants$146,273 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,860.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $11k to $332k (+2978%).
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: 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Razul Branch
Executive director
Board chair
Alicia Cobb
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL 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
BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC.
“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
91% of BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k 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
BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- ARPA Beneficiary Award$250k
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 BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL 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
5% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
9%
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 BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL 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 BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC?
- BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,200 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($140,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $154,200 in grants to BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEPORT ARTSCULTURAL COUNCIL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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