Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE
COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,413,605 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,229,465). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Colorado Children's Chorale does
Mission
The mission of the Colorado Children's Chorale is to share professional choral music with the global community by training excellent young performers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The chorale performed 6 public concerts in the denver metro area with attendance of 6,097 adults and children; 11 concerts in the denver metro area and beyond with attendance of 34,434 adults and children; 27 shows & workshops in schools, libraries, and senior centers in the denver metro area and beyond with attendance of 5,323 children, teachers, families, and seniors; 441 chorale members had 22,434 interactions with chorale staff for performance and music training; 751 students in under-resourced schools experienced 208 sessions of performance and music training free of charge.
$1,742,131 spent$1,108,423 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,742,131.
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 $4.9M to $6.1M (+24%).
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 7% · 2019 10% · 2020 17% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 2023 10% · 2024 15% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $142k → $454k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 CHILDREN'S CHORALE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 CHILDREN'S CHORALE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 62% · 2019 58% · 2020 65% · 2021 41% · 2022 40% · 2023 50% — 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
38% of COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
65% of COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE'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. Of the $848k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 CHILDREN'S CHORALE receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.4M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE: 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 CHILDREN'S CHORALE?
- COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE (Colorado) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,413,605 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($1,229,465). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,413,605 in grants to COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,229,465 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE 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 31 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