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Connecticut Heritage Foundation
Connecticut Heritage Foundation (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,766 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($133,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Connecticut Heritage Foundation does
Mission
To promote the awareness of Connecticut?s history and culture by providing resources that will support and expand the collections and educational programs of the Connecticut State Library and the Raymond E. Baldwin Museum of Connecticut History and Heritage
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Assessment Grants-Collection Assessment grants were awarded to museums for assessments of their collections. After site visits to examine collections and review policies and procedures related to collection care and management, recipients received collection assessment reports with prioritized lists of recommendations for improving the care and management of collections. These recommendations are intended to help institutions improve the care of their collections, alert board members to collections care concerns, provide documentation that can support development of a long-range collection/preservation plan, and be used to fundraise for collection projects
Humanities Grant-The Museum of Connecticut History received a Planning Grant from CTH in July 2024 for the ?Connecticut?s Role in the Founding of the United States? project. These funds allowed the museum to work with an Exhibit Planning Consultant, an Exhibit Designer Consultant, and an Advisory Team of Connecticut-based historians and museum professionals to create a comprehensive plan for an exhibit that will commemorate the nation?s semiquincentennial.
Seed Education Grant-Elisabeth Nevins, owner of Seed Education Consulting, served as the Exhibit Planning Consultant for the ?Connecticut?s Role in the Founding of the United States? project from July 2024-March 2025. Nevins led the planning project, managing meetings with an Advisory Team, Connecticut State Library's (CSL) Internal 250 Committee, and the Core Planning Team to brainstorm topics for the exhibit, solidify themes, identify individual stories and artifacts, and provide feedback for layout and design. Under her leadership, the team was able to create a comprehensive plan for an exhibit called "Connecticut?s Revolution" that includes an Exhibit Brief, Exhibit Framework, and Exhibit Designs.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $162k to $141k (−13%).
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.
100% of Connecticut Heritage Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Arthur J Mulligan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $51k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Heritage Foundation’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 Heritage Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 Connecticut Heritage Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Connecticut Heritage Foundation's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 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
Connecticut Heritage Foundation's revenue fell 73% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Connecticut Heritage Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100 on record.
- Premises Repair/Maint Services$100
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 Connecticut Heritage Foundation
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.
Public support
100%
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 Connecticut Heritage Foundation: 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 Connecticut Heritage Foundation?
- Connecticut Heritage Foundation (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,766 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($133,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Connecticut Heritage Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $133,766 in grants to Connecticut Heritage Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connecticut Heritage Foundation?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $133,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connecticut Heritage Foundation 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 2024–2025), 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