Colorado · Nonprofit
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,777,832 to it, the largest being BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION ($262,890). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Art Students League of Denver does
Mission
Asld offers courses and programs that foster growth for artists at every level.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Art courses: asld focuses on teaching the fundamentals of the visual arts to anyone interested in studying with no requirement of background or experience. The teaching philosophy is the atelier (master/ apprentice) method. The immersion approach provides students the opportunity to work side by side with a master artist in the studio. When asld first opened, it employed only a handful of artists who taught fewer than 100 students. Currently we employ more than 100 professional artists serving approximately 800 students per month. We offer more than 400 hands on workshops, classes, lectures and youth courses.
$1,878,375 spent$1,202,155 earned by the program85% of program spendingSummer art market: summer art market (sam) is asld's annual outdoor street fair, held since 1992. The event showcases almost 300 local artists, all of whom are part of the asld community, as faculty, students and members. Each year, 10,000 people attend, comprising a loyal base of collectors, donors, sponsors and members of the public. It has widely been called the best art market in all of colorado. Asld makes no money from the sale of art, but does raise funds through booth rental fees, and food and beverage sales at the event. Expenses include event planners, licenses, entertainment, supplies, marketing, security, and other infrastructure for the event itself.
$104,600 spent$172,847 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther programs: over the past few years, asld has pursued partnerships with a variety of community organizations to provide art experiences to individuals who may not otherwise have the opportunity. Some of these partnerships include the denver public library, where asld faculty artists teach hands-on art workshops in libraries to intergenerational audiences; jefferson county schools, where faculty teach art teachers studio techniques; and with a variety of other art organizations to offer joint programming. Revenue for these programs comes from a combination of grants and registration fees. Expenses include wages and supplies. Asld hosts a variety of exhibitions at our historic grant street building and in partnership with various creative spaces throughout the community. Representing the diversity of the thriving denver arts community, our exhibitions also provide an opportunity to examine current trends and purchase original fine art from faculty, students and celebrated artists from across the u.s. Each year, the visiting artist series brings several notable artists to asld to teach master classes, which supplement existing ongoing classes and workshops. This extraordinary…
$219,743 spent$208,160 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,202,718.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.4M (+13%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 10% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% · 2024 17% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $101k → $230k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
38% 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 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 20% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 42% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“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
42% of ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
82% of ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $487k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $310k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$295k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$15k
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 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER
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
83% 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 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER?
- ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,777,832 to it, the largest being BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION ($262,890). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $1,777,832 in grants to ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER?
- BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $262,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER 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 47 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing