Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART
THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,610 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($19,086). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inclocal
- Sustainable Ct Incportfolio match
- National Arbor Day Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $700 → $2k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART’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 JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 99% · 2023 91% — 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
THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART draws 55% 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. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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.
- Community Foundation of Middlesex County InclocalCT · funds 56 organizations near you
- Sustainable Ct Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Arbor Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Law Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Haven Green Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keep America Beautiful Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New England Grassroots Environment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California ReLeafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado State University Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earth Day Oregonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART
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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART: 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 THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART?
- THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,610 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($19,086). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $50,610 in grants to THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART?
- IN OUR BACKYARDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JONAH CENTER FOR EARTH AND ART 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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