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CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $990,515 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($325,310). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $991k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Connecticut Humanities Council Inc does
Mission
Connecticut humanities champions the enduring value of public humanities in our lives and civil society. Through grant funding and capacity building, cth strives to ensure the public humanities will continue to inspire storytelling, lifelong learning, informed public dialogue, and civic engagement in ways that strengthen communities and enhance the quality of life for all connecticut's residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ct humanities (cth), an affiliate of the national endowment for the humanities, awards grants to eligible cultural non-profits, municipalities, and tribal nations for the planning and implementation of and access to humanities programs and exhibits for the public. Grants and staff support the creation of online educational resources as well as museum/cultural organizational, professional, and workforce development.
$2,736,057 spentof which $1,291,150 as grants100% of program spendingCt center for the book, an affiliate of the library of congress, promotes a love of learning though its book voyagers literature and storytelling program offered at schools and public libraries. This program also distributes books to children and families to create literature-rich home environments.
Cth, through its online educational resources connecticuthistory.org and teachitct.org, provides educator resources focused on connecticut history and culture that are aligned with ct state social studies frameworks.
Connecticut humanities council, inc. Provides a variety of educational programs and services including organization building initiatives, helping organizations connect with presenters and discussion leaders and promotes state and local history to life in connecticut classrooms.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,736,057.
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 $1.5M to $7.3M (+375%).
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 85% · 2018 92% · 2019 90% · 2020 86% · 2021 95% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC’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. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $39k → $68k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 HUMANITIES 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
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 63% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
60% of CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84.8M on record — $9.2M federal, $75.6M state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$9.2M
- State Aid Grants$38.2M
- ARPA Beneficiary Award$35.4M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.1M
- Graphic Design$15k
- Non-Employee Reimbursements$250
- In-State Travel$175
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 HUMANITIES 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $990,515 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS ($325,310). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $990,515 in grants to CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC?
- THE SCRIPPS FAMILY FUND FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $325,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES 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.
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 8 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