Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,550 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,050). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Cultural Connections Inc does
Mission
Our program, run in Madison schools and community centers, connects youth affected by incarceration to opportunities in our larger cultural arts and academic communities. We partner with BIPOC artists and educators committed to equity and inclusion through creating cultural capital. We know that incarceration disproportionately affects low income communities of color. We also know that low income communities of color have less access to cultural arts opportunities. Michele Obama led the Obama Administration's Committee on Arts and Humanities in a study to find the effects of cultural arts engagement on low-income youth. It concluded that arts participation creates positive social outcomes especially among "hard-to-reach and economically disadvantaged students, and that low-income, arts-engaged kids are more likely to attend college. Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, studied 200 underrepresented black male youth from the same community, 100 incarcerated
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
For one school, this grant funded a lead artist, creative services and 2 assistants. It covered transportation for children affected by incarceration to attend programming at a different site. The work done by these children will eventually be in a gallery and seen on an online gallery, both are still in progress due to Covid.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 CONNECTIONS 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 CONNECTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 CONNECTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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
80% of CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,352 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,352 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like CULTURAL CONNECTIONS 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CULTURAL CONNECTIONS 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 CONNECTIONS INC?
- CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,550 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,050). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,550 in grants to CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURAL CONNECTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 3 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