Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS
COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,130 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($193,615). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $628k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $424k
- Net assets
- $241k
What Colorado Business Committee for the Arts does
Mission
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (cbca)s mission is to advance colorados creative economy by connecting business and arts. We accomplish this mission through statewide advocacy, research, training, volunteerism and arts engagement efforts. Cbca has been forging inspiring arts and business partnerships since 1985.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, cbca served thousands of people across colorado through various programs and events in celebration of the organizations 40th anniversary. Cbca member companies, their employees and the general public, including business professionals, arts administrators, creative entrepreneurs, civic leaders and more participated in cbca activities. Programs connect businesses and their employees with leadership and engagement opportunities in the cultural sector; provide artists with legal assistance and business skills training; and advocate for colorados creative ecosystem through research, recognition and policy development. -------------------- see schedule o for details -------------------------
$406,959 spentof which $19,996 as grants$114,670 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $406,959.
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 2022 to 2023, from $421k to $585k (+39%).
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: 2021 17% · 2022 8% · 2023 5% · 2024 9% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS’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. 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
Nancy Walsh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $16k → $104k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS’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
COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 51% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% — 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
33% of COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
95% of COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k 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.
Against its field
COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS: 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 COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS?
- COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,130 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($193,615). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $424,130 in grants to COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $193,615 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE 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 16 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