Connecticut · Nonprofit
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,275 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($194,200). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $992k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc does
Mission
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center exists to present a diverse repertoire of cultural and performing arts, to provide educational opportunities in the arts, and to be a lasting legacy for America's iconic actress.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Over 350 events were produced and offered to the general public. These events showcased the arts including local and regional theater, livestreams, concerts, dance, film, lectures, and other artistic endeavors.
$3,534,668 spent$2,942,351 earned by the program90% of program spendingUse of facility space for local artists and other groups to stage performances open to the general public or for special events.
$210,048 spent$224,749 earned by the program5% of program spendingEducation
$131,394 spent$151,995 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe center is home to the only museum of its kind dedicated to America's iconic actress, Katharine Hepburn. Open to the public, the museum was renovated and reimagined in 2021 and reopened in November 2021 as a fully functioning program to the center.
$56,121 spent$35,462 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,932,231.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $3.9M (+50%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $45k → $166k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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 Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 50% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
87% of The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $438k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc?
- The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,275 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($194,200). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $992,275 in grants to The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $194,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center 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 32 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