Colorado · Nonprofit
Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc
Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,013 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($150,853). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $313k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc does
Mission
To inspire the love for dance, encourage artistic expression, and increase accessibility of dance and performance for the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
CCDs mission is to To inspire the love for dance, encourage artistic expression, and increase accessibility of dance and performance for the community. This mission statement is the backbone of CCDs three pillars of operations: 1) to provide nationally recognized conservatory dance training; 2) provide high-quality mainstage dance productions; and, 3) engage community in high-impact education programs that ensure dance is accessible to everyone. CCD provides leading quality dance education in classical ballet, jazz, modern, tap, contemporary, and culturally relevant styles with programs that foster community, create positive influence, and inspire the individual. 23 faculty provided instruction for over 300 youth an adult students. Offered approximately 90 low-cost training opportunities to approximately 40 professional dancers via choreographers residency programs. Provided access to dance for special needs children through Ballet Expressions program of adaptive dance. Led in-school residencies for over 800 underserved elementary school students, including performances of anti-bullying ballet for students at schools throughout the north metro Denver area. CCD provided over…
$336,817 spent48% of program spendingCCD presented total 17 MainStage performances (7 in the Fall, 10 in the spring), and the Performing arts series at Pinnacle engaged with 4898 audience members.
$211,813 spent30% of program spendingCCD engaged with 1 middle school and 1 high school for Move2Learn classes from October 2023 through May 2024 with five days/week program. CCD also engaged with 5 different elementary schools for free after school dance programs throughout the school year. CCD Community Education programs reached 5,724 students including Anti Bullying Dance Performances, Sensory Friendly Collaborations with CSO, Move2Learn classes, and After school dance program.
$157,310 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $705,940.
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 $227k to $642k (+183%).
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 31% · 2022 13% · 2023 18% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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.
Chief executive
L Castanuela Barnes 5242024
Exec Director
Board chair
Kristina Hernandez Schostak
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $20k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Conservatory of Dance Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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 Conservatory of Dance Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 Conservatory of Dance Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 53% · 2019 60% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
74% of Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc'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 $82k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k 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
Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 Conservatory of Dance Inc: 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 Conservatory of Dance Inc?
- Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,013 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($150,853). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $313,013 in grants to Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,853 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colorado Conservatory of Dance Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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