Connecticut · Nonprofit
Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc
Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,920 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($140,763). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $366k
- Net assets
- $258k
What Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc does
Mission
The mission of the cultural alliance of fairfield county is to support cultural organizations, artists and creative businesses by providing unified marketing, capacity building, professional development, and advocacy services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Website - fzbuzz.org: This member supported website provides unified marketing by listing news on theater, exhibits, music, history, and more for easy access by the public. Many marketing partnerships are utilized to market fzbuzz.org and managed by the organization.
$26,602 spent38% of program spendingCapacity Building: Provide information relevant to the professional growth of arts, culture, organizations and artists through weekly newsletters.
$10,645 spent15% of program spendingAdvocacy services: cultivate opportunities to engage with business, education, and community relationships and provide timely information to the arts and culture aboutissues that are of the utmost importance to the sector through advocacy alerts to subscribers. The organization also engages as a partner with americans for the arts and with our neighbor, the cultural alliance of western connecticut, in preparing the 5-year arts and economic prosperity (aep) studies on the fairfield county region.
$152 spent0% of program spendingOther Program Services: Other expenses incurred for the administration of smaller programs benefiting cultural organizations, artists and the community.
$33,393 spentof which $31,811 as grants47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,792.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4k to $186k (+4447%).
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 42% · 2018 26% · 2019 18% · 2020 43% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $19k → $123k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County 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
Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 79% · 2019 73% · 2020 45% · 2021 60% · 2022 73% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“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 Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
84% of Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $450k on record.
- State Aid Grants$398k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$52k
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 Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County 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.
Public support
88%
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 Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc: 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 Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc?
- Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,920 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($140,763). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $365,920 in grants to Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,763 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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