Connecticut · Nonprofit
FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC
FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $650,322 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($140,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $650k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc does
Mission
Five Points Arts' mission is to champion and nurture artists at all stages of their careers and to empower a diverse community through the presentation of inspiring exhibitions and educational initiatives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Five Points Arts finalized the purchase of the former University of Connecticut Torrington campus on June 30, 2020. The 30,000 sq. ft. building and surrounding 90 acres has been transformed into the Five Points Art Center. The center is designed as a dynamic, vibrant, cross disciplinary laboratory where artists explore new techniques and concept, learn from one another and engage the community through workshops, seminars, lectures, and outdoor interactive experiences.In conjunction with the Five Points' galleries and launchpad initiatives in downtown Torrington the Art Center will exponentially further the positive impact of the arts in our region and extend the understanding of the visual arts as a vehicle for positive social, community, cultural and economic change.
$620,854 spent$109,950 earned by the program96% of program spendingThe Five Points Launchpad supports emerging artists by providing affordable shared studio spaces above Five Points Gallery. In addition to workspace, the initiative offers a mentorship program, a serious arts community, gallery management experience and a Five Points Gallery exhibition opportunity.
$18,949 spent$19,698 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe Five Points Annex, an expansion of the Five Points Launchpad program, is an affordable community pop-up gallery managed by the Launchpad artists.
$4,378 spent$6,300 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $644,181.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.2M to $3.4M (+180%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 12% · 2021 2% · 2022 38% · 2023 52% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $7k → $49k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS 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
FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 55% · 2020 49% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% — 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
63% of FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.3M
- State Aid Grants$98k
- Client Services-General$18k
- Conf/Seminars/Workshop-Hosting$5k
- Non-Employee Reimbursements$1k
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 FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC?
- FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $650,322 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($140,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $650,322 in grants to FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC?
- THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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