Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC
THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,220 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($60,827). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $680k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $513k
What The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc does
Mission
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Inc. is a dynamic cultural institution that cares for and provides public access to its collection of more than 7,000 works of art and artifacts that document the African American experience and can be considered a national treasure. Through high caliber exhibitions and culture-based education programs and events inspired by this collection, The Amistad Center engages, enlightens, and entertains art enthusiasts, scholars, students, individuals and families throughout the Greater Hartford region and, through traveling exhibitions, the nation. The Amistad Center is housed in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the country's oldest public art museum, which uniquely enables our institution to serve and satisfy a variety of audiences and interests.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - education related activities include development , implementation and management of youth serving programs e.g. Teen advisory group (tag), neighborhood studios summer youth program and family /community days; adult public programs such as tours and lectures; printed material developed to amplify exhibition concepts e.g. Gallery guides, exhibition catalogues.
$289,612 spent63% of program spendingCURATORIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDE EXHIBITION PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION; PARTICIPATING IN WADSWORTH COMMITTEES AND PROJECTS RELATING TO MUSEUM-WIDE EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING, MUSEUM-WIDE COLLECTION INSTALLATION AND INTERPRETATION; STAFFING THE CURATORIAL COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. COLLECTION ACTIVITIES INCLUDE CARE (CONSERVATION, FRAMING), MANAGEMENT (LOANS, INVENTORY, RECORD KEEPING), DEVELOPMENT (PURCHASES, GIFTS) AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH OF THE AMISTAD CENTER'S COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 7,000 WORKS OF ART, ARTIFACTS AND DOCUMENTS.Exhibition related activities include the development of the exhibition concept, creation of the checklist of works to be included in the exhibition, coordination of loans and conservation of artwork with museum personnel, writing explanatory labels and wall text, writing and coordinating the design of catalogues or other publications and information to be present on the website, coordinating image use permissions, working with artists to create or install work, opening receptions and events, docent training.
$170,177 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $459,789.
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 2020 to 2021, from $480k to $728k (+52%).
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 45% · 2018 12% · 2019 0% · 2020 13% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 21% · 2024 50% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $49k → $17k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $821k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hartford Foundation for Public Giving). These are real filings, and they are not money THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE 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
THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 52% · 2020 82% · 2021 47% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — broadly stable.
“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
0% of THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
55% of THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $96k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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.
Government funding THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $909k on record — $10k federal, $899k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- State Aid Grants$691k
- ARPA Beneficiary Award$200k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$7k
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 THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC?
- THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,220 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($60,827). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $215,220 in grants to THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE INC?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE 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 13 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