Colorado · Nonprofit
BLAST N SCRAP
BLAST N SCRAP (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,550 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Blast N Scrap does
Mission
Arts and education - donation based with no one turned away for lack of funds; all ages always; safe and healthy environments with onsite harm reduction, mental health, and mutual aid resources, information, and referrals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Blast Shows Program: delivered over 150 multi-act concerts featuring more than 100 young and emerging bands to duplicated audiences of over 5,000 participants of all ages on a voluntary donation basis with no one turned away for lack of funds. Shows feature onsite mutual aid, health, and harm reduction resources. Encompasses the New Galaxy Audio Program which advances hands-on training for 20+ individuals each year as professional live audio engineers to mix and run sound at Blast Shows and at other shows in area venues as a career path in the music industry.
$39,121 spentof which $39,121 as grants42% of program spendingScrapyard Garb: Screen printing instruction and supplies for young and emerging artists to learn spring printing skills and techniques utilizing salvaged, donated, and repurposed supplies - served approximately 50 individuals.
$2,275 spentof which $1,172 as grants2% of program spendingScrapped Magazine - participant initiated and led "zine" documenting and celebrating the Northern Colorado music and arts scene; engages visual arts, journalistic, and creative writing submissions from community members
$7,926 spentof which $1,011 as grants8% of program spendingReduce N Recover - supports harm reduction and sexual health supplies, resources, training, and referrals at all Blast N Scrap shows, and 10+ local venues (whether Blast N Scrap is there or not), delivers quarterly trainings on harm reduction and assault and harassment prevention for at least 50 industry professionals each year to keep Fort Collins area venues and music scenes safer for all; supports the delivery of biweekly peer support substance use recovery meetings that are unique in celebrating incremental change and rejecting "all-or-nothing" approaches to recovery; supported the collaboration to deliver the Fight the Stigma Festival, an all-day music festival featuring artists and musicians on recovery paths with onsite recovery resources and remarks by community leaders serving an audience of 250+
$44,420 spentof which $40,000 as grants47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,742.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $19k (−64%).
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.
89% of BLAST N SCRAP’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Joshua David Rivera
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of BLAST N SCRAP’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
BLAST N SCRAP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 97% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BLAST N SCRAP's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
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.
Against its field
BLAST N SCRAP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BLAST N SCRAP
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLAST N SCRAP: 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 BLAST N SCRAP?
- BLAST N SCRAP (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,550 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLAST N SCRAP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $75,550 in grants to BLAST N SCRAP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLAST N SCRAP?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLAST N SCRAP 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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