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Connecticut · Nonprofit
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC (Connecticut) is funded by 71 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $7,148,687 in grants to it, the largest being HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION INC ($1,620,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 737 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
56% of NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 8 funders to 9 as grant income moved $173k → $667k.
11 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. Association, not causation.
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 15% · 2019 14% · 2020 41% · 2021 31% · 2022 22% · 2023 64% · 2024 28% · 2025 75% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
47% of NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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.
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 71 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $90k federal, $2.9M state.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
79% of spending goes to programs.
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 71funders 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. view filing