Colorado · Nonprofit
CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY
CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,204,373 to it, the largest being The VF Foundation ($185,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $317k
What Civic Center Conservancy does
Mission
Civic Center Conservancy is dedicated to keeping denvers civic center park active and thriving for all. As an independent nonprofit, the conservancy engages individuals, businesses and community groups as champions for this essential public space. Civic Center Conservancys work benefits the park, the people who use the park and the future of the park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For the people - the conservancy serves as the park's community builder, activating the space & providing opportunities for engagement year-round. The conservancy engages small businesses, neighboring cultural institutions, arts organizations & other local groups in bringing diverse voices & audiences to the park. Impact: community building, access and accessibility programs and initiatives: emerging entrepreneur awards, civic center eats (food trucks), night market, dia de los muertos, independence eve, concerts, support and capacity building for other community events.
$469,230 spent$287,943 earned by the program50% of program spendingFor the future - spaces like civic center park require a caretaker who is connected to the people who use the park, who advocates for improvements & who transforms the space to meet the needs of anyone who gathers there today & long into the future. The conservancy is responsible for shaping the vision for the future of the park, coordinating conversations between the city leaders & those who use the park every day, & advocating for public & private investment needed to keep this space thriving. Impact: partnership, advocacy, future investment programs and initiatives: civic center next 100, advocating for additional public investment in the park, capital campaign, advocating for civic center in the community and media.
$234,614 spent25% of program spendingFor the park - the conservancy supports the park's upkeep by raising funds to restore its historical structures, enhance its natural spaces & advocate for investment in this essential public space. The city takes care of the basic needs of the grounds, while we step in to fill the gaps & ensure the park reflects the people & the spirit of the city. Impact: welcome, beautiful and clean programs and initiatives: civic center sparkles (volunteers), civic center works (supplemental maintenance).
$234,614 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $938,458.
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 2021 to 2022, from $296k to $607k (+105%).
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 8% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 17% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% 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
Chris Frampton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $8k → $299k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $57k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY’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
CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 46% · 2021 35% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
63% of CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k 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
CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY?
- CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,204,373 to it, the largest being The VF Foundation ($185,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,204,373 in grants to CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY?
- The VF Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIVIC CENTER CONSERVANCY 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.
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 24 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