Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc
Hartford, CT · EIN 23-7111486. Reported 137 grants totalling $2,898,850 to 59 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,146 and the largest $194,592. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Riseup Group Inc | Hartford, CT | $262,554 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz | Hartford, CT | $245,499 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hartford Jazz Society Inc | Hartford, CT | $225,246 | 12 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hartford Business Improvement District | Hartford, CT | $159,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Conference of Churches Inc | Hartford, CT | $149,146 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Night Fall Inc | Hartford, CT | $133,900 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Theaterworks Inc | Hartford, CT | $96,150 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Advancing Connecticut Together Inc | Hartford, CT | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Institute for Community Development-Puerto Rican Parade | Hartford, CT | $88,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc | Hartford, CT | $86,650 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hartford Public Library | Hartford, CT | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Iquilt Partnership Inc | Hartford, CT | $73,840 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hartford Dance Collective | Hartford, CT | $69,800 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation | Hartford, CT | $68,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hartbeat Ensemble Inc | Hartford, CT | $65,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Claro Inc | Hartford, CT | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | Hartford, CT | $55,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc | Hartford, CT | $55,146 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| West Indian Independence Celebrations | Hartford, CT | $54,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Real Art Ways Inc | Hartford, CT | $52,700 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Mark Twain Memorial | Hartford, CT | $50,800 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Art of Tao | Hartford, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Taste of the Caribbean Arts & Culture Ct Inc | Hartford, CT | $45,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Riverfront Recapture Inc | Hartford, CT | $38,406 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Blues Society Inc | Farmington, CT | $35,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Playhouse Theatre Group Inc | West Hartford, CT | $32,624 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Artists Collective Incorporated | Hartford, CT | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Bushnell Center for the Perform | Hartford, CT | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central Connecticut Celtic Cultural Committe Inc | Glastonbury, CT | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art | Hartford, CT | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ebk Framing and Arts Services | Hartford, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sonia Plumb Dance Company Inc | Hartford, CT | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little Theatre of Manchester Inc | Manchester, CT | $20,646 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Charter Oak Temple Restoration Association Inc | Hartford, CT | $20,546 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Britain Museum of American Art Inc | New Britain, CT | $20,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hill-Stead Museum | Farmington, CT | $20,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Knox Inc | Hartford, CT | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $14,896 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trinity College | Hartford, CT | $14,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Choral Artists Inc | New Britain, CT | $13,246 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Judy Dworin Performance Project | Hartford, CT | $12,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Antiquarian & Landmarks Society Inc | Hartford, CT | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Justice Dance Performance Project Inc | Hartford, CT | $11,146 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hartfordsgottalent Inc | East Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Juan Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colt Park Foundation Inc | Hartford, CT | $9,327 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asylum Hill Congregational Church | Hartford, CT | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Elizabeth Park Conservancy Inc | West Hartford, CT | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connecticut Historical Society | Hartford, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Feeney Inc | West Hartford, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hartford Chorale Inc | Hartford, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Out Film Ct Inc | Hartford, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Forum Inc | Hartford, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cuatro Puntos Inc | Glastonbury, CT | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Science Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $6,286 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Luna Entertainment Productions LLC | Hartford, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Night Hartford Inc | Hartford, CT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Voce Inc | Hartford, CT | $5,146 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
35 of 59 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Greater Htfd Chamber of Comme
Hartford for the Holidays and fisca - Hartford Jazz Society
Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz - Taste of the Caribbean Inc
Taste of the Caribbean Festival - The Conference of Churches I
Gallery Activation/Dance Program - Connecticut Blues Society
Black Eyed and Blues Festival - Trinity College
Samba Fest and International Hip Ho
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 33 | $464,586 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 54 | $1,024,048 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | $993,016 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $417,200 | $12,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT, 06103.
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