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BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER

BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,753 to it, the largest being THE PHILEONA FOUNDATION ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$208k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
$248k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Bug Performance and Media Art Center does

Mission

Provide diverse programming to serve our multi-faceted, multi-cultural denver community. Ultimately, the bug strives to bring a new audience to the theatre and a new theatre to the audience.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide diverse programming to serve our multi-faceted, multi-cultural denver community. Ultimately, the bug strives to bring a new audience to the theatre and a new theatre to the audience.

    $189,083 spent$207,833 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,083.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($106k) Expenses 100 ($123k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2018 Revenue 137 ($145k) Expenses 99 ($121k) Net assets 209 ($38k)2019 Revenue 141 ($149k) Expenses 101 ($124k) Net assets 370 ($67k)2020 Revenue 88 ($93k) Expenses 79 ($96k) Net assets 404 ($73k)2021 Revenue 167 ($177k) Expenses 76 ($93k) Net assets 882 ($159k)2023 Revenue 163 ($172k) Expenses 112 ($137k) Net assets 1300 ($234k)2024 Revenue 164 ($173k) Expenses 146 ($179k) Net assets 1270 ($229k)2025 Revenue 197 ($208k) Expenses 154 ($189k) Net assets 1374 ($248k)
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Revenue (197)Expenses (154)Net assets (1374)Peer revenue range

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 $73k to $159k (+118%).

$18k
$43k
$67k
$73k
$159k
$234k
$229k
$248k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
$24k
’18
$25k
’19
−$3k
’20
$84k
’21
$35k
’23
−$6k
’24
$19k
’25
16
months of
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.

Chief executive

Alex Agosta-Weimer

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $149.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER’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

BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 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

BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve15.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER: 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 BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER?
BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,753 to it, the largest being THE PHILEONA FOUNDATION ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,753 in grants to BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER?
THE PHILEONA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUG PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART CENTER 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 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