Colorado · Nonprofit
BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY
BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,537 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($433,220). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $433k
What Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company does
Mission
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company creates powerful, engaging, top-quality performances and programs, with meaningful impacts beyond the stage. We serve and welcome colorado's many diverse communities, cultivating an inclusive environment for artists and audiences. We are united by creativity, connectivity, and compassion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since the organization's leadership transition in july 2023, betc's programming and staff continue to grow. The number of mainstage productions have increased over the first season, and the scale of the productions has also grown. We have added another venue, performing a couple of our shows in denver as well as boulder. Betc continues to produce its kids/families series, which is 'pay-what-you-can' in order to make it accessible to all audiences. Betc also produces several special productions/events (new year's eve) and staged readings throughout the year as well. Our total attendance for all programs increased to 10,414 for the 2024-2025 season, over 9,361 in the previous season.
$942,503 spent$286,051 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $942,503.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $404k to $172k (−57%).
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 15% · 2018 7% · 2019 9% · 2020 7% · 2021 22% · 2022 50% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $54k → $136k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY’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
BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 48% · 2019 37% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 21% · 2023 77% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
66% of BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY'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 $350k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $688k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY: 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 BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY?
- BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,537 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($433,220). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,038,537 in grants to BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $433,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY 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 22 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