Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO BRASS
COLORADO BRASS (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $222 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($222). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $222
- Net assets
- $112k
What Colorado Brass does
Mission
Colorado Brass is a premier brass and percussion ensemble. The band performs an annual subscription concert series in addition to national competitions and festivals, including the Rocky Mountain Brassworks Festival, the U.S. Masters Brass Band Championships, and the North American Brass Band Association Championships. The band also provides educational and performance opportunities for youth musicians through master classes and joint concerts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Subscription Concert Series. A series of six concerts were given to the general public. Over 1,000 people attended the concerts over the course of the year. The programs are chosen both to entertain and to educate the audience on the long tradition of British-style brass band playing.
$5,620 spent53% of program spendingThe band participated in the North American Brass Band Championships in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in April. We received awards for full band, small ensemble and solo participants.
$2,540 spent24% of program spendingYouth Program. Colorado Brass held two Youth Weekends during the year. Students attended on the Saturday, where they received tuition from members if the band and rehearsed music chosen by the musical director. On the Sunday, we held a joint concert, where the youth performed alone and with the full band. Over 40 students (mostly high school age, with some middle school and college age) participated in each event.
$2,371 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,531.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $57 → $49.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COLORADO BRASS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of COLORADO BRASS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222 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
COLORADO BRASS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO BRASS?
- COLORADO BRASS (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $222 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($222). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO BRASS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $222 in grants to COLORADO BRASS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO BRASS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $222 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO BRASS 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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