Colorado · Nonprofit
A CHILDS SONG INC
A CHILDS SONG INC (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $376k
- Net assets
- $1k
What A Childs Song Inc does
Mission
A childs song nurtures an appreciation for music while providing programs and education to share the developmental, healing and social-emotional benefits of music for children and adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In-house instruction: we offer personalized music lessons and movement programs for all agest and levels. Individual and group lessons, in-person and online, are provided at our main studio in thornton. Other programs include melody gym and interactive metronome.
$235,241 spent$216,306 earned by the program67% of program spendingCommunity outreach programs: community outreach programs focus on the individual needs of clients with physical, developmental, behavioral, social, economic or emotional challenges. A childs song has adapted our group and private instruction for students who learn at their own unique pace. Our lessons are taught by qualified instructors who are familiar with the many areas of those needs. Many of our music teachers are also certified in music therapy, im, and early childhood education.
$92,769 spent27% of program spendingSchools outreach - grant funding coupled with generous donations from our supportive community enables a childs song to offer specialized music education at area schools. Through collaborative partnerships in the denver metro area, we have provided music programming in numerous districts, enhancing existing music programs and even developing core music curriculum in underfunded schools. We also partner with individual schools to provide fun and educational after-school programs for children of all ages. Our instructors travel with keyboards, drums, guitars, ukuleles and whatever other instruments will help serve those they support and create individualized programs to meet the schools before, during and/or after school needs.
$21,774 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $349,784.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $75k to $156k (+109%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 24% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of A CHILDS SONG INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Andy Hall
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $49k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A CHILDS SONG INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A CHILDS SONG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A CHILDS SONG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 42% · 2020 77% · 2021 49% · 2022 37% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of A CHILDS SONG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of A CHILDS SONG INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A CHILDS SONG INC has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding A CHILDS SONG INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like A CHILDS SONG INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A CHILDS SONG INC?
- A CHILDS SONG INC (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A CHILDS SONG INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $376,412 in grants to A CHILDS SONG INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A CHILDS SONG INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $122,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A CHILDS SONG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing