Colorado · Nonprofit
ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC
ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,359 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($81,326). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $399k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Arapahoe Philharmonic Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to engage, enrich, and inspire our community through musical performance, education, and outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fiscal year 24-25, we continued to fulfill our mission to engage, enrich, and nurture our diverse community through musical performance, education, and senior outreach. This year, we presented 66 events including four (3) full classical orchestra concerts, four (4) pops concerts, two (2) outdoor pops concerts, with attendance over 7200 audience members, twenty (20) educational events, with over 2800 students, teachers, and parents in attendance, and thirty (30) senior outreach events with over 1000 seniors in attendance. Finally, we launched our seats for service programs providing free tickets to veterans and their families, donating over 500 tickets.
$282,197 spent$120,417 earned by the program99% of program spendingOur in-school educational programming included both our musicians traveling to low-income schools to perform and work with students, coaching high- school and middle school band programs. We continued our performances in senior living communities with a focus on subsidized facilities, bringing music to those who need it most, exemplifying our mission to make music accessible to all.
$1,558 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $283,755.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $67k to $116k (+73%).
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: 2020 33% · 2022 65% · 2023 48% · 2024 38% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Travis Bockenstedt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $7k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC 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
ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
96% of ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC: 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 ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC?
- ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,359 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($81,326). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $115,359 in grants to ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC INC?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARAPAHOE PHILHARMONIC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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