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CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC

CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $392,500 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($392,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$66k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$393k
Net assets
$76k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Connecticut Arts Alliance Inc does

Mission

To foster public education and awareness of the arts, promote the value of all achievement of the arts industry and its impact of the state's quality of life, advocate to ensure the arts are central to the life of connecticut, and work to increase funding for the arts in connecticut.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promotion, public awareness, and funding of the arts industry in the state of connecticut.

    $159,187 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $159,187.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($206k) Expenses 100 ($166k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2023 Revenue 92 ($190k) Expenses 96 ($160k) Net assets 150 ($178k)2024 Revenue 32 ($66k) Expenses 101 ($168k) Net assets 64 ($76k)
202220232024
Revenue (32)Expenses (101)Net assets (64)Peer revenue range

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 $178k to $76k (−57%).

$118k
$178k
$76k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’22
$30k
’23
−$102k
’24
8.2
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $125k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE 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.

Where its funders are

100% of CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC's revenue fell 68% between 2022 and 2024.

Operating margin−153% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−43% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Government funding CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $256k on record.

State$256k
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22
23
24
25
26
Top programs
  • State Aid Grants$135k
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$121k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC?
CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $392,500 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($392,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $392,500 in grants to CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE INC?
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $392,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONNECTICUT ARTS ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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