Connecticut · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC
FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,322 to it, the largest being ADELINE & GEORGE MCQUEEN FOUNDATION XXXXX1007 ($100,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $426k
- Net assets
- $745k
What Friends of the Levitt Pavilion Inc does
Mission
Provide free and abundant access to the performing arts; present and support a dynamic and multifaceted spectrum of artists from around the country and the globe; and preserve and cultivate an outdoor community destination where people of all ages and backgrounds are always welcome and encouraged to get to know the arts, nature, and each other.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The levitt pavilion produces one of the largest and longest running outdoor performing arts series in the nation. 2024 marked the independent and unique organization's 50th season, during which the levitt pavilion presented 60 shows free-of charge to the public and presented a compelling and wide reaching series of 17 paid-ticket shows that included national and regional tours, which in turn included connecticut debuts for acclaimed as well as emerging artists, and its annual gala. The free and paid programs' style, genres and format vary and attract patrons from throughout the northeast and beyond. The organization continues to maintain and improve the facility that is its home while expanding its programming and reach, and community engagement. Over 75,000 patrons were welcomed and engaged. Over the course of five decades, the levitt pavilion has welcomed and entertained over 2m people and counting.
$1,576,067 spent$776,669 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,576,067.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+26%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 10% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 9% · 2023 7% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Freda Welsh
President & CEO
Board chair
Janet Plotkin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $1k → $72k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION 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
FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 53% · 2022 49% · 2023 32% — 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
25% of FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC draws 79% 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. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,322 to it, the largest being ADELINE & GEORGE MCQUEEN FOUNDATION XXXXX1007 ($100,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $426,322 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION INC?
- ADELINE & GEORGE MCQUEEN FOUNDATION XXXXX1007 is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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