Colorado · Nonprofit
BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS
BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,466 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($111,739). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $496k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Breckenridge Creative Arts does
Mission
To deliver inspiring creative experiences that enrich the quality of life and quality of place for all who live, work or play in breckenridge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Produces and promotes quality performing/visual arts events that animate and drive the development of the breckenridge arts district, a cultural corridor in the heart of downtown breckenridge.
$2,252,340 spent$396,109 earned by the program62% of program spendingManages town-owned properties, including facility rentals.
$1,358,272 spent$141,509 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,610,612.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $2.4M (+74%).
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 82% · 2018 86% · 2019 87% · 2020 68% · 2021 73% · 2022 67% · 2023 66% · 2024 62% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS’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. 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.
Board chair
Martin Carter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $39k → $81k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $368k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Summit Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 33% · 2022 62% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
71% of BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $335k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$335k
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 BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS?
- BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,466 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($111,739). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $496,466 in grants to BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $111,739 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRECKENRIDGE CREATIVE ARTS 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 18 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