Connecticut · Nonprofit
FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC
FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,306 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM AND ALICE MORTENSEN FOUNDATION ($132,151). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $426k
- Net assets
- $-3382
What First Night Hartford Inc does
Mission
To conduct a New Year's Eve festival in Hartford, CT to showcase our cultural institutions and promote community spirit.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To conduct a public New Year's Eve festival in Hartford, CT.
$107,579 spentof which $93,867 as grants70% of program spendingSupport the 4th of July Celebration (approximately 20,000 participants)
$45,089 spentof which $56,737 as grants30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $152,668.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $7k to $18k (+147%).
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.
74% of FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD 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. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $34k → $29k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD 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
FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 38% · 2020 31% · 2021 42% · 2022 30% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
97% of FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD 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. $80k 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
FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC has grown faster than half of the 335 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27k on record.
- State Aid Grants$19k
- sponsorship$5k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$3k
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 FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD 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
64%
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 FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD 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 FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC?
- FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,306 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM AND ALICE MORTENSEN FOUNDATION ($132,151). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $426,306 in grants to FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD INC?
- THE WILLIAM AND ALICE MORTENSEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $132,151 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST NIGHT HARTFORD 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 2020–2026), and the filings of 12 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