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Fine Arts Foundation

To enrich life in colorado by supporting the arts.

$15k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Arts & Culture$173kEducation$40kEnvironment$3k
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Denver Art Musuem$7,500
University of Denver$7,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GRAND COUNTY CONCERT SERIES: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$145k · 14 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
22

Total granted

$145k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +33%
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -11%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +79%
  • OC
    OPERA COLORADO
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
2
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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3
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra

The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…

Arts & Culture
4
The Center for the Arts

The center for arts, a home for arts and culture, offers engaging opportunities and educational experiences to enrich and expand the life of our community.

Arts & Culture
5
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company

Boulder ensemble theatre company creates powerful, engaging, top-quality performances and programs, with meaningful impacts beyond the stage. we serve and welcome colorado's many diverse communities, cultivating an inclusive environment…

Arts & Culture
6
Aurora Symphony Orchestra

Performing Symphony Concerts for the greater Aurora, Colorado Community

Arts & Culture
7
Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra

Charitable organization presenting musical events and educational programs. In 2023-24, Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra presented two world premieres and featured numerous works by women composers and composers of color.

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8
Theatre Artibus

Artibus is dedicated to strengthening community through the experience of live performance. We are a hub in Denver for intimate, original performances that explore important social themes and for building community through shared space,…

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9
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra

To inspire, enrich, and connect our community through the transformative power of live orchestral music.

Arts & Culture
10
Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble

The Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble (CVAE) is a regionally acclaimed chamber choir dedicated to excellence in the choral art.

Arts & Culture
11
Longmont Concert Band

The Longmont Concert Band is a nonprofit organization composed of volunteer musicians from the surrounding community. Our goals are to provide quality concert band music to the general public, to provide a fun and invigorating atmosphere…

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Mahlerfest

Advancement of music through the celebration of the legacy of the composer Gustav Mahler through an annual festival

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central City Opera House Association and the most unlike its peers is Denver Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr13%52%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
1,499/11,114

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DENVER ART MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $11,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSPLATTEFORUM — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePLATTEFORUMCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $9,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONPHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureArvada Center for the Arts and Humanities — $5,500 · Arts & CultureInside the Orchestra — $5,500 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $59,500 · Arts & Culture+19 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $32,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO…STORIES ON STAGE — $2,500 · EducationSTORIES ON STAGETHE DENVER BRASS INC — $6,500 · OtherART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER — $5,500 · OtherUP CLOSE AND MUSICAL — $2,500 · OtherCherokee Ranch & Castle — $3,000 · EnvironmentGRAND CONCERTS INC — $2,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$154,000Education$42,000Other$14,500Environment$3,000Human Services$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLATTEFORUM — $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENVER BRASS INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetArvada Center for the Arts and Humanities — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInside the Orchestra — $5,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER — $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA COLORADO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHERRY ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Voices of Colorado — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORRISON THEATER COMPANY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for the Arts Evergreen Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSU TEATRO INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationBonfils-Stanton Found…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Xcel Energy FoundationBurgess R & F TuwThe Anschutz Foundati…Gates Family Foundati…Hill Foundation Wells…Zeppelin Family Found…Sheila Fortune Founda…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO52.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Burgess R & F Tuw · The Anschutz Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Zeppelin Family Foundation · Sheila Fortune Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fine Arts Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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