Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$24,031

Total expenses

$459,568

Contributions and grants received

$197,655

Grants paid

$141,381

Program service revenue

$262,001

Investment income

-$435,625

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$287,865

Total liabilities, end of year

$88,604

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$199,261

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$411,011

Management and general expenses

$34,217

Fundraising expenses

$14,340

Program service expenses (Part III)

$411,011

Program services were 89.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• THE CONNECTICUT-BASED SONG AND DANCE ENSEMBLE "POLANIE" WAS FORMED IN 2006, JOINED POLISH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION SOON THEREAFTER, AND NOW CONSISTS OF MORE THAN 70 INDIVIDUALS. THE GROUP HAS FOUR DANCE GROUPS, A BAND, AND A CIRCLE OF SINGERS. BEGINNING IN 2013, POLANIE BEGAN HOSTING ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVALS IN LOCAL TOWNS. THE EVENTS ARE ATTENDED BY OVER 700 PEOPLE AND FEATURE DANCE AND MUSIC PERFORMANCES FROM GROUPS REPRESENTING THE UKRAINE, PERU, GERMANY, PORTUGAL AND POLAND, IN ADDITION TO THE UNITED STATES. POLANIE IS ALSO PROUD TO PARTNER WITH AND HOST ARTISTS FROM VARIOUS FAMOUS POLISH ENSEMBLES. FAMOUS ARTISTS FROM "MAZOWSZE AND "ZIEMIA BYDGOSKA" PERFORMED WITH POLANIE. THE GROUP IS PASSIONATE ABOUT POLISH MUSIC AND DANCE. DUE TO ITS VARIED REPERTOIRE POLANIE HAS HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF PERFORMING AT CONSULATE OFFICES, WEDDINGS, PARADES, NATIONAL FESTIVALS, AND SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES AND POLAND.THE MISSION OF "POLANIE" SONG AND DANCE ENSEMBLE IS TO ENGAGE IN ENTHUSIASTIC PERFORMANCES THAT PROVIDE JOY TO OUR AUDIENCE. THE GROUP IS ABLE TO ACHIEVE THIS WITH THE HARD WORK AND HELP OF THE COMMITTEE, MEMBERS, AND THE FAMILIES OF THE DANCERS.

  Expenses $76,837 · Revenue $7,550

• POLONIA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION - INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING RING THAT LINKS BUSINESS INDIVIDUALS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, SERVES POLONIA COMMUNITY AND ORGANIZES THE ANNUAL "LITTLE POLAND" FESTIVAL. SINCE ITS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, THE LITTLE POLAND FESTIVAL HAS GROWN TO BECOME ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING AND MOST POPULAR CULTURAL FESTIVALS IN ALL OF NEW ENGLAND. THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL TAKES PLACE IN NEW BRITAIN'S LITTLE POLAND NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH TO THIS DAY IS HOME TO ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST VIBRANT POLISH COMMUNITIES IN ALL THE US.EACH YEAR, THE FESTIVAL ATTRACTS OVER 30,000 PARTICIPANTS FROM ACROSS ALL OF NEW ENGLAND AND THE EAST COAST WHO COME OUT TO ENJOY OUR EXCITING ENTERTAINMENT LINEUP ON TWO STAGES, TRADITIONAL FOLKS DANCING PERFORMANCES, DOZENS OF RESTAURANTS SERVING DELICIOUS POLISH FOOD, BEER GARDENS, OVER 100 VENDOR BOOTHS, AN ANTIQUE CAR SHOW AND PLENTY OF ATTRACTIONS FOR OUR YOUNGEST FESTIVAL GOERS.

  Expenses $64,731 · Revenue $70,589

• POLISH-AMERICAN COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW BRITAIN ("PACGNB") IS THE PROGRAM OF POLISH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION THAT ORGANIZES THE "DOZYNKI" FESTIVAL WHICH HONORS POLISH HARVEST TRADITIONS AND SUPPORTS LOCAL CHARITIES. CELEBRATED ON A SUNDAY AFTER THE HARVEST SEASON, DOZYNKI GIVES THANKS FOR THE CROPS GATHERED. CENTRAL TO THE FESTIVAL IS THE WREATH, SYMBOLIZING ABUNDANCE AND NEW LIFE. THE CELEBRATION INCLUDES A CATHOLIC MASS WITH A BLESSING OF THE WREATH AND BREAD, FOLLOWED BY FOLK DANCES, LIVE MUSIC, AND DELICIOUS FOOD. PACGNB ALSO ORGANIZES ANNUAL GALA "NOC WITOJASKA" (ST JOHN'S NIGHT), A SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION, AND FUNDRAISER FOR "NASZ DOM" HOUSE FOR DISABLED CHILDREN IN POLAND.

  Expenses $56,800 · Grants $39,350 · Revenue $60,899

• Expenses $212,643 · Grants $102,031 · Revenue $122,963

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• NATIONAL IMMIGRANT HERITAGE CENTER

  $3,000

  SPONSOR IMMIGRANT HERITAGE HALL OF GAME FUNDRAISER GALA

• VARIOUS US CHARITIES EACH 500

  $2,800

  VARIOUS CHARITABLE CAUSES

• POLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL

  $2,325

  GRANT FOR THE OPERATION OF THE POLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

1 distribution to a recipient named as a person, $320,000. Counted where the filer named the recipient as a person, as filed. Who received them, and what, are not published.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

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