Colorado · Nonprofit
BOULDER METALSMITHING
BOULDER METALSMITHING (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,559 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Boulder Metalsmithing does
Mission
Located in the nobo art district and established in 2009, the mission of Boulder Metalsmithing association (boma) is to educate people about the creative and technical processes of metalsmithing and offer artists, hobbyists and jewelers a place to work. We achieve this mission by: o offering the community affordable demonstrations and exceptional hands-on workshops taught by world-class instructors; o making shared open studio time, tools and equipment available to individual artists; o providing exhibition opportunities for artists to show and sell their work; o offering an annual train-the-trainer metalsmithing program called "enhancing art through metalsmithing" for local art teachers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workshops: hands on workshops are priced below market value and the class sizes are small open studio: shared studio hosts artists who may not have other workspaces. Fees are below market average. Enhancing art: local public school art teachers receive training in metalsmithing and are able to borrow equipment to use in classrooms with a reach of >600 students
$117,527 spent100% of program spendingLocal public school art teachers receive training
$156 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,683.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $227k to $195k (−14%).
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: 2021 20% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% · 2024 26% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of BOULDER METALSMITHING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 8 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21 → $26.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 METALSMITHING’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 METALSMITHING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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 BOULDER METALSMITHING's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 METALSMITHING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BOULDER METALSMITHING
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
61% 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 METALSMITHING: 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 METALSMITHING?
- BOULDER METALSMITHING (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,559 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOULDER METALSMITHING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,559 in grants to BOULDER METALSMITHING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOULDER METALSMITHING?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOULDER METALSMITHING 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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