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CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER
CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,918,570 to it, the largest being ANDREW J & JOYCE D MANDELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,687,015). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Charter Oak Temple Restoration Assoc D/B/A Charter Oak Cultural Center does
Mission
Charter oak cultural center, a beautiful historic landmark and vibrant arts center, doing the work of social justice through the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
City school of the arts (formerly youth arts institute) - our city school of the arts reached hundreds of hartford inner-city children with classes in the arts held after-school and in the summer, as well as evening programs for families, all free of charge. All of our city school of the arts institute offerings are designed with the overarching goals of 1) promoting skill acquisition 2) helping children meet the state of connecticut arts k12 goals and standards 3) encouraging knowledge and love of the arts and a love of learning. This past year our city school of the arts had many successes and we met all of our evaluation goals and benchmarks.
$390,632 spent$48,411 earned by the program48% of program spendingProfessional programming as - part of our mission of making the arts accessible to all, we provided cutting-edge, thought-provoking performing and visual arts which included dance, theatre, music, film, concerts, readings, lectures and gallery exhibitions for audiences in hartford and beyond. Our offerings built awareness and appreciation of all the world's cultures. Our overall goal is to provide access to the arts to all who hunger for them, and, as a matter of policy, we offered as many of our professional performances and events as we could for free, kept our prices as low as possible and never turned anyone away who could not afford the price of a ticket.
$30,327 spent4% of program spendingSocial justice programming - our beat of the street (bots) programming is designed to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness and to make real and lasting changes in the lives of those experiencing homelessness. Through our beat of the street newspaper, we hire individuals from the homeless community to deliver the paper and compensate those who contribute content to the paper. Our bots learning center for creative learning provides a completely free education for those experiencing homelessness. We provide three semesters a year, offering mostly arts-based classes. Graduates are eligible for a tuition-free four-year degree from goodwin university. Through our eats of the street program, we place large pots of organic vegetable plants throughout the city of hartford. We hire members of the homeless community to tend the pots, which are painted by local artists. The vegetables are available for free to anyone in need, addressing hunger in our city. Eats of the street brings food, jobs and art to hartford. We have also established the ada maria isasi-diaz justice institute to address challenges specific to latinx women.
$193,701 spent24% of program spendingRestoration and maintenance of the temple, which is a historical landmark building.
$206,188 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $820,848.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $3.4M (+41%).
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 2% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 20% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 51% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Donna Berman
Executive director
Board chair
Barbara Vita
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $180k → $526k.
8 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 39% · 2021 40% · 2022 43% · 2023 43% — 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
40% of CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
95% of CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $97k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$97k
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 CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER?
- CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER (Connecticut) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,918,570 to it, the largest being ANDREW J & JOYCE D MANDELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,687,015). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,918,570 in grants to CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER?
- ANDREW J & JOYCE D MANDELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,687,015 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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