Ohio · Nonprofit
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,675 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ($181,222). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $428k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts does
Mission
The association brings the world to our legendary stage, enriches lives, and creates community through our mission to: (1) preserve the legacy of the historic shubert theatre in new haven as an icon of the american theatre by operating and evolving our theatre as a world class performing arts center; (2) present international, national and local programming of the highest quality, featuring renowned artists from all cultures and embracing all genres of the performing arts and the diversity of our local culture and community; (3) educate, inspire, and build new and diverse audiences by offering education and outreach programs which integrate the arts into our community and by providing affordable access to live performances at our theatre; (4) strengthen our arts communities through advocacy, partnership, collaboration, and mutual support; (5) invigorate the local economy through the programming we present, the audiences we attract, and our support of the businesses in our community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association owns and operates the shubert theatre. Operations include facilitation of rental events and maintenance and upkeep of the theatre. Over the fiscal year, various upgrades and maintenance were performed on the theatre to fully upgrade the stage lighting system to led and a newly constructed cabaret theatre was created. There were over 20 rental events in the theatre and cabaret during the fiscal year which included: "new haven ballet's nutcracker", "sacred heart academy's musical", a two and a half week rental for "yale opera's a rake's progress", the technical rehearsals for a massive puppet featured in broadway's "stranger things and a variety of community-based meetings and seminars.
$2,936,617 spent$1,511,582 earned by the program45% of program spendingThe association presents exceptional performers from around the world, educating and entertaining the public through presentations that span diverse genres, including theatre, music, comedy, dance, and children's programming. The shubert theatre, in fy25 welcomed over 65,000 patrons to 106 events. Presentations included: "david sedaris", "tina: the tina turner musical", "momix: alice in wonderland", "fairytale of new york", "fraggle rock", "brian regan", "john lodge", and more. The broadway play "clue" sold over 86% of available tickets.
$3,175,440 spent$3,451,529 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe association provides a variety of educational and arts opportunities to students and their families in the greater new haven community. These programs provide access to the arts to many that would otherwise be unable to do so. These programs are accomplished through workshops, master classes, visiting artist projects, and community ticket distributions. Over the fiscal year, we served over 13,000 students. Additionally, the association is contracted by the new haven board of education to provide management and technical services for cooperative arts and humanities high school's arts programs, related theatres and support spaces, along with internship programs in ushering and technical theatre. See schedule othis partnership also provides almost 100 students with technical theatre training and allows them to become a workforce for the school. The students will be able to take these skills onto higher education programs, apprenticeships and job opportunities.
$354,357 spent$461,692 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,466,414.
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 2024 to 2025, from $18M to $21M (+19%).
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 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 9% · 2021 51% · 2022 56% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% 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
Chad Whittington
President & CEO
Board chair
Lakisha Jordan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $104k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’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
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 56% · 2019 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 96% · 2023 88% — 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
0% of CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
62% of CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS'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 $162k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266k 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
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Columbus Association for the Performing Arts · exempt
- Lincoln Theatre Association · exempt
- The Columbus Association for the Southern Theatre · exempt
- Palace Theatre Manager LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,675 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ($181,222). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $427,675 in grants to CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN is the largest funder on record, with $181,222 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 13 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