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RedLine

RedLine fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change.

$780k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $615,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $780,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $164,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $548k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Concrete Couch$60,000
Small Town Project$35,000
Create ayA$35,000
Motus Theater$35,000
Moxley Studio$35,000
Colorado Asian Pacific United$35,000
Brink Literacy Project$35,000
Impact Arts$35,000
Lighthouse Writers Workshop$30,000
Tenderfoot Transmitting Inc$30,000
Blue Sage Center for the Arts$25,000
Words to Power$25,000
FC Mural Project$20,000
Colorado African Cultural Center$20,000
Jacales Fine Art (RG)$17,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $291k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARTNERS YOUTH MENTORING: $15k → 12%GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC LIBERTY RURAL LEARNING COOPERATIVE: $20k → 13%MT ROSE HEALTH CENTER PALLIAT: $20k → 18%PARTNERS YOUTH MENTORING OF DELTA MONTROSE AND OURAY: $10k → 12%THE LIBERTY RURAL LEARNING COOPERATIVE: $10k → 13%CHICANOA MURALS OF CO PROJEC: $20k → 7%CHICANOA MURALS OF COLORADO PROJECT: $15k → 7%Colorado African Cultural Center: $20k → 10%COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $13k → 12%DENVER INDIAN FRC: $15k → 12%ECDCAFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF DENVER: $20k → 12%ATLANTIS COMMUNITY INC: $30k → 12%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MGMT: $25k → 12%Presenting Denver: $25k → 12%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR: $15k → 12%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MGMT: $10k → 12%FOUR WINDS AMERICAN INDIAN COUNCIL: $9k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 44 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
89

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+31%

Still filing today

84%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $428k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WC
    WARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +224%
  • MT
    MOTUS THEATER
    4× · 2018–2025 · $128k · revenue +266%
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    6× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CE
    COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • CC
    CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -10%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Cultural Caravan

The Cultural Caravan brings together locally-owned businesses, social-serviced nonprofits, municipal organizations, and local artists to make Boulder more vibrant, inclusive, culturally active, and economically vital by presenting…

Arts & Culture
2
Boulder County Arts Alliance Inc

Since 1966, BCAA acts as a catalyst to incubate, stimulate and sustain a thriving arts community in Boulder County. BCAA commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive and equitable Boulder…

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Events

Colorado events mission is to organize community events that increase public knowledge and appreciation for visual arts, fine crafts, and supporting local merchants, by creating opportunities that connect artists and local businesses, with…

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4
Colorado Artists in Recovery

Colorado Artists in Recovery utilizes recovery-oriented principles to provide a safe, encouraging, and inclusive environment for people affected by substance use and mental health. Through our workshops and events we nurture their creative…

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Jazz Ambassadors
Arts & Culture
6
40 West Arts Inc

Vision: The re-emergence of Lakewoods historic West Colfax corridor as a vibrant creative corridor and a memorable destination. Mission: To enrich the community and enhance the creative cultural and economic vitality of the historic West…

Arts & Culture
7
Denver Fringe Festival Inc

The Denver Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access festival that supports bold, progressive arts and diverse voices in all genres of performance arts. Our primary purpose is to support independent artists and promote access to original…

Arts & Culture
8
Denvers Art District on Santa Fe

The Art District on Santa Fe serves as a vital organization in uniting artists, providing educational and technical resources to businesses, driving economic development through events and programming, advocating for members and the…

Arts & Culture
9
Open Studios Inc

Open Studios is an organization operating in Boulder County, Colorado that serves artists and the broader community by advancing the visual arts through education and events.

Arts & Culture
10
High Performance Dance Theatre

Our mission is to combine dance and modern technology to provide high-quality training and productions while increasing the communitys knowledge of the arts

Arts & Culture
11
Wind River Valley Artist Guild
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12
Denver Biennial of the Americas Corp

The mission of the biennial of the americas is to create connections, build community, and inspire change across the americas through the transformative power of ideas and art.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth On Record; the most unlike its peers is Mt Rose Health Center Palliative Care and Hospice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 152 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
72/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOTUS THEATER: $127,500 · Arts & CultureMOTUS THEATERBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $85,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTSYOUTH ON RECORD: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSOUND AFFECTS MUSIC: $71,000 · Arts & CultureSU TEATRO INC: $65,000 · Arts & CulturePHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureLOCAL THEATER COMPANY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCONCRETE COUCH: $60,000 · Arts & CultureACCESS GALLERY: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+37 more: $929,500 · Arts & Culture+37 moreART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $93,000 · OtherCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC: $80,000 · OtherMancos Creative District Inc: $61,000 · OtherPROJECT SHOP: $60,000 · Other+71 more: $1,457,400 · Other+71 moreINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesEMANUEL PROJECT INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesAtlantis Community Incorporated: $30,000 · Human ServicesGRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPRESENTING DENVER: $25,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMT ROSE HEALTH CENTER PALLIATIVE CARE AND HOSPICE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $14,865 · Human ServicesColorado Coalition for the Homeless: $12,500 · Human Services+1 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $75,000 · EducationPOP CULTURE CLASSROOM: $60,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $55,000 · EducationMusical Mentors Collaborative Inc: $35,000 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADO: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $12,000 · EducationWARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION: $135,000 · PhilanthropyWORDS TO POWER: $65,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $95,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE GENOA TOWER: $40,000 · Community ImprovementWEST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementBIRDSEED COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementYOUTH EMPLOYMENT ACADEMY: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COYOTE SCHOOL: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentART FROM ASHES INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSalida Circus Outreach Foundation: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Documentary Academy: $12,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$1,593,000Other$1,751,400Human Services$291,365Education$257,000Philanthropy$200,000Community Improvement$190,000Youth Development$152,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWARM COOKIES OF THE REVOLUTION: $135,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMOTUS THEATER: $127,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $95,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER: $93,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $85,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC: $80,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD: $80,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSOUND AFFECTS MUSIC: $71,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSU TEATRO INC: $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetWORDS TO POWER: $65,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetMancos Creative District Inc: $61,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetPOP CULTURE CLASSROOM: $60,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY: $60,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLOCAL THEATER COMPANY: $60,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT ACADEMY: $60,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetACCESS GALLERY: $55,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEcoArts Connections: $47,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetPLATTEFORUM: $42,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC: $42,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS: $40,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GENOA TOWER: $40,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetTHINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMIRROR IMAGE: $37,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCOLORADO HUMANITIES: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetColorado Asian Pacific United: $35,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetEMANUEL PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetMusical Mentors Collaborative Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSMALL TOWN PROJECT: $35,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC: $32,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAtlantis Community Incorporated: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOOTHILLS ART CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNORTHWEST COLORADO VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVoices: $30,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTENDERFOOT TRANSMITTING INC: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOLORADO MUSIC BRIDGE: $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetGRASSROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetDELTA MONTROSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHopeWest: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FRIENDS: $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPRESENTING DENVER: $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPGS COUNCIL OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationBonfils-Stanton Found…Colorado Gives Founda…Caring for Denver Fou…Gates Family Foundati…Latino Community Foun…Mile High United Way …El Pomar FoundationCaring for Colorado F…Sheila Fortune Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization RedLine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from RedLine. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 152 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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