Connecticut · Nonprofit
ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC
ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,080 to it, the largest being KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $171k
What Essex Winter Series Inc does
Mission
The mission of Essex Winter Series is to bring the finest musical performances to the widest and most culturally, economically, and socially diverse audience possible in the Connecticut River Valley and Shoreline Region during the winter months.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization normally holds four concerts each year, attended by approximately 300-400 patrons per event, and when possible, holds post-concert receptions for contributors to meet the artists. In addition, the organization provides outreach programs such as virtual or in-person preformances at senior community centers or other common areas for those unable to attend concert halls. The organization also provides music enrichment programs for 10 to 12 middlesex and new london county grade schools and at least one master class which is made avialable for the general public at no cost. Lastly, for deserving students studying music at the college level, the organization awards an annual scholarship to help support students during their four years of undergraduate study.
$97,363 spentof which $2,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,363.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $157k to $194k (+23%).
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.
67% of ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $19k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 ESSEX WINTER SERIES 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
ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 91% · 2022 51% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC draws 69% 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. $18k 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
ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44k on record.
- State Aid Grants$28k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$16k
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 ESSEX WINTER SERIES 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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSEX WINTER SERIES 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 ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC?
- ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,080 to it, the largest being KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $106,080 in grants to ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC?
- KITCHINGS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSEX WINTER SERIES 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing