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Fine Arts Foundation

To enrich life in colorado by supporting the arts. This is accomplished by raising funds to support the arts through grants and to educate our members and the community at large while developing individual and community support.

$15k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 21
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Fine Arts Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20202$15k0%
FY201921$74k38%
FY201813$50k54%
FY201721$77kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$173kEducation$40kEnvironment$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fine Arts Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetArt Students League of Denver: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetCherry Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Voices of Colorado: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOpera Colorado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral City Opera House Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Morrison Theater Company: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Young Artists Orchestra Association: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDenver Film Society: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder County Arts Alliance Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPerforming Arts Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for the Arts Evergreen Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoulder Historical Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSu Teatro Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Fine Arts Foundation

How much does Fine Arts Foundation give?
Fine Arts Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Fine Arts Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Education (18%), Environment (1%).
Who are Fine Arts Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: University of Denver ($33k), Denver Art Museum ($30k), Denver Center for the Performing Arts ($11k).
Does Fine Arts Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fine Arts Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.
Where is Fine Arts Foundation based?
Fine Arts Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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