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AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS

AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,773,351 to it, the largest being DW FRANKEL FOUNDATION INC ($2,213,382). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
57
Grants received
$6.8M
Net assets
$16M
31/57 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Ah Haa School for the Arts does

Mission

The Ah Haa School for the Arts is a community center of learning and culture that offers a wide variety of programs and inspires individuals of all ages to explore, develop, and celebrate their creativity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Ah Haa School for the Arts which includes the american academy of bookbinding offers year round classes and workshops for youth, teens and adults in a variety of media including bookbinding, ceramics, culinary arts, drawing, painting, fiber arts and more. The school also presents exhibitions and community art events that feature local, regional, national and international artists. Over 2,500 students attended classes and over 10,000 people visited our facilities.

    $2,283,878 spentof which $88,529 as grants$903,717 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,283,878.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2018 Revenue 75 ($2.3M) Expenses 96 ($1.1M) Net assets 120 ($6.7M)2019 Revenue 69 ($2.1M) Expenses 103 ($1.2M) Net assets 134 ($7.5M)2020 Revenue 147 ($4.4M) Expenses 67 ($804k) Net assets 199 ($11M)2021 Revenue 78 ($2.3M) Expenses 117 ($1.4M) Net assets 215 ($12M)2022 Revenue 53 ($1.6M) Expenses 155 ($1.9M) Net assets 211 ($12M)2023 Revenue 104 ($3.1M) Expenses 169 ($2.0M) Net assets 232 ($13M)2024 Revenue 186 ($5.6M) Expenses 225 ($2.7M) Net assets 284 ($16M)2025 Revenue 80 ($2.4M) Expenses 231 ($2.8M) Net assets 285 ($16M)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (231)Net assets (285)

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 $8.1M to $11M (+40%).

$5.9M
$7.3M
$8.1M
$11M
$12M
$12M
$14M
$17M
$16M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 3% · 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
’17
$1.1M
’18
$846k
’19
$3.6M
’20
$938k
’21
−$263k
’22
$1.1M
’23
$2.9M
’24
−$354k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

Chief executive

Marty Wollesen

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+1+4+3+3+3+2+1
No longer listed·00327310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $413k.

18 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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

AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

47% 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 AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS.

33%
largest funder
49%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 58% · 2019 45% · 2020 30% · 2021 30% · 2022 25% · 2023 16% — 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

39% of AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 18 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
TN
DC
HI
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 10%Fundraising 7%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS?
AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,773,351 to it, the largest being DW FRANKEL FOUNDATION INC ($2,213,382). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $6,773,351 in grants to AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS?
DW FRANKEL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,213,382 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 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