Colorado · Nonprofit
CELEBRATE THE BEAT
CELEBRATE THE BEAT (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,881,275 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($473,570). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $519k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $92k
What Celebrate the Beat does
Mission
Celebrate the Beat provides the highest quality in-school and after-school dance programs for all children that improves their physical health and well being, inspires them to believe in themselves, and establishes a standard of excellence that impacts all all aspects of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Eagle County: CTB uniquely brings schools and communities together through the arts, helping students develop a personal standard of excellence. Our in-school classes include every child in a grade, regardless of physical, emotional, or learning differences. Classes last 45 minutes and are taught during the regular school day, underscoring our belief that the arts are as valuable as every other subject. Students from grades 3, 4 and 5 participated in CTB dance classes, accompanied by live music, for our one week Feel the Beat intensive. Each class was taught by two professional teaching artists/dancers and accompanied by a live musicianan element that sets CTB apart from other in-school dance programs.Every residency culminated in a public performance, where students joyfully share what theyve learned with the community. These highly professional performances are choreographed and accompanied by a full band, showcasing the impressive amount of learning achieved. Classroom teachers actively participate in classes and are encouraged to join the final performance alongside their students.In 202425, CTB reached more children in Eagle County than the previous year, due to the bold step…
$404,083 spent$61,200 earned by the program100% of program spendingSummit County Expansion:In our second year of programming in Summit County, we were met with tremendous enthusiasm in the three schools we worked within. Two programs were 12 weeks (classes once a week for 12 weeks), the other was our Feel the Beat, one week intensive. In addition to the class-wide program, CTB offered after-school instruction for dancers from participating classes who wanted to challenge themselves further. These students attended additional 90-minute DREAM Team (Dancers Reaching Excellence, Artistry, and Mastery) classes after school where they received more complex instruction.
Valverde Elementary School in Denver:CTB was awarded a $25,000 grant from the City of Denver After School Alliance Office of Childrens Affairs, enabling us to pilot a two-part program: a one-week Feel the Beat residency last spring, followed by a 12-week program this fall. Students, teachers, and families expressed tremendous gratitude for the joy, artistry, and excellence that CTB Teaching Artists brought into their school and community.This grant represents a significant milestone for CTB, as it supports our goal of reinvigorating programming in Denverparticularly in schools serving low-income communities, where access to high-quality arts education is often limited. We believe every child deserves the opportunity to experience the transformative power of dance, live music, and community performance, and we are committed to expanding our reach so that more children in underserved neighborhoods can benefit from CTBs unique approach.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $404,083.
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 2018 to 2019, from $118k to $263k (+122%).
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: 2018 4% · 2021 10% · 2023 18% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of CELEBRATE THE BEAT’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. 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $210k → $135k.
14 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CELEBRATE THE BEAT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
CELEBRATE THE BEAT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
44% 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 CELEBRATE THE BEAT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 65% · 2019 45% · 2020 44% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 22% — 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
57% of CELEBRATE THE BEAT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
CELEBRATE THE BEAT draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $822k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CELEBRATE THE BEAT's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CELEBRATE THE BEAT
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CELEBRATE THE BEAT: 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 CELEBRATE THE BEAT?
- CELEBRATE THE BEAT (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,881,275 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($473,570). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CELEBRATE THE BEAT have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,881,275 in grants to CELEBRATE THE BEAT, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CELEBRATE THE BEAT?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $473,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CELEBRATE THE BEAT 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 40 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