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NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC

NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,812 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($159,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$347k
Net assets
$11M
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts Inc does

Mission

Provide professional-level training, education and performance experience in classical ballet and other dance forms for young students dedicated to the art of dance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provision of professional dance and pre-professional dance instruction.

    $1,575,515 spentof which $330,542 as grants$1,650,246 earned by the program
    79% of program spending

  2. Offering of a variety of ballet performances in torrington, ct and the surrounding region.

    $409,995 spent$359,665 earned by the program
    21% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,985,510.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($8.9M)2018 Revenue 98 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($2.1M) Net assets 101 ($9.0M)2019 Revenue 97 ($2.3M) Expenses 110 ($2.3M) Net assets 101 ($8.9M)2020 Revenue 99 ($2.3M) Expenses 106 ($2.2M) Net assets 103 ($9.1M)2021 Revenue 97 ($2.3M) Expenses 83 ($1.7M) Net assets 113 ($10M)2022 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 96 ($2.0M) Net assets 115 ($10M)2023 Revenue 98 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($2.1M) Net assets 118 ($10M)2024 Revenue 101 ($2.4M) Expenses 107 ($2.2M) Net assets 120 ($11M)2025 Revenue 106 ($2.5M) Expenses 122 ($2.5M) Net assets 122 ($11M)
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Revenue (106)Expenses (122)Net assets (122)Peer revenue range

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 $9.6M to $11M (+9%).

$9.5M
$9.5M
$9.6M
$9.6M
$11M
$11M
$11M
$11M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$265k
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$192k
’18
−$15k
’19
$127k
’20
$562k
’21
$346k
’22
$189k
’23
$135k
’24
−$40k
’25
1.4
months of
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.

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Listed151514151313131313
Joined·+0+0+2+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·01121010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $69k.

Funder
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funders
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7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE 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

NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC.

46%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 76% · 2019 81% · 2020 36% · 2021 60% · 2022 90% · 2023 70% — 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

27% of NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

81% of NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
PA
NJ
CT
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.

State$105k
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Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$54k
  • State Aid Grants$51k

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 NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE 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

New Haven Ballet79%New England Ballet Theatre of Connecticut Inc77%Connecticut Classic Inc76%New Britain Museum of American Art Inc76%The Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall75%Connecticut Ballet Inc75%Connecticut Concert Ballet Inc74%Northwestern Ct YMCA Inc74%

Nationally

Northeast Ballet Company79%Des Moines Metro Opera Foundation Inc79%New Haven Ballet79%Anderson Young Ballet Theatre Inc79%Ballet Images Inc79%Naples Ballet Inc78%Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre Inc78%North Atlantic Ballet Theatre78%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

12
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC?
NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,812 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($159,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $346,812 in grants to NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC?
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $159,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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