How much does RedLine give?

RedLine reported 26 itemized grants totaling $615,400, out of $780,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does RedLine fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Youth Development (4%), Human Services (3%).

Who are RedLine's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Warm Cookies of the Revolution ($135k), Motus Theater ($128k), The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center ($95k).

Does RedLine fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as RedLine?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation.

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Colorado · Public charity

RedLine

RedLine fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change. Our vision is to empower everyone to create social change through art.

$780k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Itemized grants FY2025: 39
Organizations funded FY2024: 74%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $615k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $60,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 48; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 74% of the organizations RedLine funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$615k	69%
FY2024	39	$582k	74%
FY2023	11	$239k	9%
FY2022	19	$432k	79%
FY2021	20	$400k	50%
FY2020	48	$839k	60%
FY2019	21	$458k	71%
FY2018	17	$414k	88%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.2MYouth Development$160kHuman Services$112kPublic Benefit$80kCommunity Improvement$60kEmployment$60kHealth$55kCivil Rights$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Warm Cookies of the Revolution	$135,000	4	12%
Motus Theater	$127,500	4	17%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center	$95,000	6	0%
Art Students League of Denver	$93,000	4	2%
Blue Sage Center for the Arts	$85,000	3	12%
Colorado Photographic Arts Center Inc	$80,000	3	14%
Youth on Record	$80,000	2	6%
The Hadanou Collective	$75,000	3	2%
Sound Affects Music	$71,000	3	11%
Su Teatro Inc	$65,000	3	2%

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All grantees of RedLine by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Warm Cookies of the Revolution	$135,000	4	12%
Motus Theater	$127,500	4	17%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center	$95,000	6	0%
Art Students League of Denver	$93,000	4	2%
Blue Sage Center for the Arts	$85,000	3	12%
Colorado Photographic Arts Center Inc	$80,000	3	14%
Youth on Record	$80,000	2	6%
The Hadanou Collective	$75,000	3	2%
Sound Affects Music	$71,000	3	11%
Su Teatro Inc	$65,000	3	2%
Words to Power	$65,000	3	21%
Mancos Creative District Inc	$61,000	2	43%
Pop Culture Classroom	$60,000	3	4%
Project Shop	$60,000	2	n/a
Phamaly Theatre Company	$60,000	2	5%
Local Theater Company	$60,000	2	19%
Youth Employment Academy	$60,000	3	4%
Concrete Couch	$60,000	1	n/a
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Inc	$55,000	2	1%
Access Gallery	$55,000	4	12%
Colorado Energy Office	$50,000	1	n/a
Colorado Black Arts Movement	$50,000	2	n/a
City of Westminster	$50,000	2	n/a
The Coyote School	$50,000	2	n/a
Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center	$50,000	2	1%
International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management Inc	$50,000	3	n/a
EcoArts Connections	$47,500	3	17%
Platteforum	$42,500	2	6%
Boulder Community Broadcast Assoc Inc	$42,500	2	3%
Create yA	$40,000	2	n/a
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts	$40,000	2	4%
Friends of the Genoa Tower	$40,000	2	63%
Think 360 Arts for Learning	$40,000	3	3%
State Historical Society of Colorado the Colorado State Museum	$37,500	3	n/a
Mirror Image	$37,000	2	10%
Cortez Center Inc Dba Cortez Cultural Center	$35,000	1	24%
Colorado Humanities	$35,000	2	2%
Colorado State University	$35,000	1	n/a
Brink Literacy Project	$35,000	1	n/a
Colorado Asian Pacific United	$35,000	1	7%
Emanuel Project Inc	$35,000	2	84%
Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc	$35,000	1	6%
Moxley Studio	$35,000	1	n/a
Small Town Project	$35,000	1	3%
Impact Arts	$35,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Wright Opera House Inc	$32,000	2	4%
2mx2 LLC	$32,000	1	n/a
No Credits Productions LLC	$30,000	2	n/a
Atlantis Community Incorporated	$30,000	1	2%
Red Road Project	$30,000	1	n/a
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights	$30,000	1	1%
Foothills Art Center Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association	$30,000	1	0%
Voices	$30,000	1	10%
New Dance Theatre Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Tenderfoot Transmitting Inc	$30,000	1	17%
Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute	$30,000	1	4%
Colorado Music Bridge	$30,000	1	19%
Warm Cookies of the Revolutio	$30,000	1	n/a
Grassroots Foundation Inc	$30,000	2	31%
Tin Roof Productions	$30,000	1	n/a
Western Colorado Writers Forum	$27,500	3	n/a
Colorado Tints Inc	$26,000	2	n/a
Delta Montrose Youth Services Inc	$25,000	2	4%
Farm-To-Spaceship	$25,000	1	n/a
House of Pod	$25,000	1	n/a
HopeWest	$25,000	1	0%
Salt LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
Museum of Friends	$25,000	1	9%
Presenting Denver	$25,000	1	37%
Steamboat Spgs Council of the Arts & Humanities	$25,000	1	4%
Museo de Las Americas	$25,000	1	n/a
Prairie Cultural Commons	$25,000	1	n/a
Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region	$25,000	1	5%
Warrior Storyfield	$24,000	2	n/a
The Arts Studio Dba Firehouse Art Center	$22,000	1	15%
Tabor Opera House Preservation Foundation Inc	$22,000	2	1%
Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation	$22,000	1	0%
West Community Economic Development Corp	$20,000	1	2%
Fort Collins Mural Project	$20,000	1	31%
City of Lone Tree	$20,000	1	n/a
Huajatolla Heritage Foundatio	$20,000	1	n/a
Ethiopian Community Dev Council Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Nami Colorado	$20,000	1	8%
Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc	$20,000	1	5%
Colorado Dragon Boat Aka Colorado Dragon Boat Festival	$20,000	1	2%
Colorado Center for the Blind	$20,000	1	1%
Mt Rose Health Center Palliative Care and Hospice Inc	$20,000	1	2%
5Point Film Festival	$20,000	1	6%
Bicycle Colorado	$20,000	2	1%
San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition	$20,000	1	n/a
East End Arts District Association	$20,000	1	n/a
One Body Ent	$20,000	1	10%
The Dairy Center for the Arts	$20,000	1	1%
Colorado African Cultural Center	$20,000	1	n/a
Carbondale Arts	$20,000	1	3%
Pueblo Performing Arts Guild Inc	$20,000	1	7%
Fiestas Patrias LLC	$20,000	1	n/a
Independent Arts & Media	$18,000	1	1%
The Magic Southwest LLC	$17,500	1	n/a
Jacales Fine Art (RG)	$17,500	1	n/a
Rural Journalism Institute of The	$16,000	1	37%
AB Fine Art & Museum Services LLC	$15,410	1	n/a
Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgend Community Center of Colorado	$15,000	1	1%
Urban Peak Denver	$15,000	1	0%
San Juan Film Institute	$15,000	1	13%
Art From Ashes Incorporated	$15,000	1	5%
Angela Craven Art LLC	$15,000	1	n/a
Salida Circus Outreach Foundation	$15,000	1	14%
Tender Math LLC	$15,000	1	n/a
Sacred Voices	$15,000	1	12%
Block 1750	$15,000	1	n/a
The Reciprocity Collective	$15,000	1	6%
Phillip David Stearns LLC	$14,990	1	n/a
Denver Indian Family Resource Center	$14,865	1	3%
Pueblo Department of Public Health & Environment	$12,500	1	n/a
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless	$12,500	1	0%
Youth Documentary Academy	$12,500	1	5%
Gunnison Creative District	$12,500	1	48%
Southeast Behavioral Health Group	$12,500	1	0%
University of Denver	$12,000	1	0%
Shutter & Strum LLC	$12,000	1	n/a
Handsome Little Devils LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Japanese Arts Network	$10,000	1	n/a
North Fork Valley Creative Coalition	$10,000	1	18%
The Art Base	$10,000	1	1%
Mariposa Center for Infant Child and Family Enrichment	$10,000	1	n/a
The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs	$10,000	1	3%
Moyo Nguvu Cultural Art Center Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Birdseed Collective	$10,000	1	4%
City of Fruita	$10,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$10,000	1	n/a
Theatre Artibus	$10,000	1	n/a
The Unsteady Hand	$10,000	1	n/a
Four Winds American Indian Council	$9,000	1	5%
Eight16 Creative	$9,000	1	n/a
Stitching the Situation	$8,000	1	n/a
Poetry Heals	$7,500	1	9%
Westwood Warehouse LLC	$7,500	1	n/a
DADA Design LLC	$6,500	1	n/a
Creating a Major Plan (CAMP)	$5,000	1	n/a
Shine Music	$5,000	1	n/a
Denver Community Development Corp	$5,000	1	n/a
B Peace Productions	$5,000	1	n/a
Denver Digerati	$5,000	1	8%
Askkanwii Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
Colorado Village Collaborative	$5,000	1	0%
Joy as Resistance	$5,000	1	1%
Trailhead Institute	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

RedLine supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 90.

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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.

Rose Community FoundationCO73× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Caring for Colorado 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 RedLine

How much does RedLine give?: RedLine reported 26 itemized grants totaling $615,400, out of $780,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does RedLine fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Youth Development (4%), Human Services (3%).
Who are RedLine's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Warm Cookies of the Revolution ($135k), Motus Theater ($128k), The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center ($95k).
Does RedLine fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as RedLine?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is RedLine based?: RedLine is based in CO.