Colorado · Nonprofit
BLACK CUBE
BLACK CUBE (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,500 to it, the largest being VIA ART FUND INC ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $616k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Black Cube does
Program
Black Cube nomadic art museum is a nonprofit organization that supports artists in realizing their most ambitious ideas through the production of contemporary art experiences beyond traditional gallery spaces. In 2024, Black Cube advanced its mission by producing five newly commissioned artworks, welcoming 8,292 in-person attendees, and reaching an estimated 187,930 viewers across both physical and digital platforms. These activities reflect the organization's core values of experimentation, accessibility, self-sufficiency, and artistic excellence. Below is a list of the year's key direct charitable activities:1. Brendan fernandes, new monuments, chicago2. Rachel hayes, horizon drift3. Additional commissions, dirty shirley, sitting a little way off....and bruxer
$695,917 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2022 to 2023, from $295k to $138k (−53%).
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
Laura Merage
President/chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $60k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest David and Laura Merage Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BLACK CUBE raised.
From the IRS filings of BLACK CUBE’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
BLACK CUBE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 BLACK CUBE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2020 100% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
BLACK CUBE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like BLACK CUBE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK CUBE: 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 BLACK CUBE?
- BLACK CUBE (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,500 to it, the largest being VIA ART FUND INC ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK CUBE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $184,500 in grants to BLACK CUBE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK CUBE?
- VIA ART FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK CUBE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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