Connecticut · Nonprofit
TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC
TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,800 to it, the largest being PRESTON E W TR UW EWP MEMORIAL ($61,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,271 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,271 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporatedportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $46k.
From the IRS filings of TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT 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
TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
50% 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 TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 59% · 2023 43% — 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.
Where its funders are
TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Betty Knox Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Ct Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation InclocalCT · funds 177 organizations near you
- Northwest Ct Community Foundation TrustlocalCT · funds 35 organizations near you
- Torrington Savings FoundationlocalDE · funds 40 organizations near you
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.
Government funding TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- State Aid Grants$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 TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC
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.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC?
- TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,800 to it, the largest being PRESTON E W TR UW EWP MEMORIAL ($61,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $120,800 in grants to TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT INC?
- PRESTON E W TR UW EWP MEMORIAL is the largest funder on record, with $61,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN ARTS & CULTURE CT 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing