Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC
THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,599 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($495,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Trlocalportfolio match
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Incshared funderslocal
- Gallant Family Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
67% of THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $44k → $393k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 NORWALK ART SPACE 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 NORWALK ART SPACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 NORWALK ART SPACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 69% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
79% of THE NORWALK ART SPACE 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 $202k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $758k 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.
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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Trlocalportfolio matchNY · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you
- Gallant Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Konstantin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fromson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Low Road Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolf Kahn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edward and Mary Lord Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Association of New Haven Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Incportfolio 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.
Government funding THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- State Aid Grants$10k
- 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 NORWALK ART SPACE 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.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NORWALK ART SPACE 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 THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC?
- THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,599 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($495,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $959,599 in grants to THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $495,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NORWALK ART SPACE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 22funders 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