Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION
COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,158,313 to it, the largest being H CHASE STONE TRUST B XXXXX5009 ($234,700). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Colorado Springs Conservatory Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the colorado springs conservatory is to inspire, motivate, and challenge all students to aspire to their highest potential as artists and as human beings through arts immersion studies and community arts advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The colorado springs conservatory (csc) is the pikes peak region's only performing arts conservatory, offering world-class immersion studies in instrumental music, vocals, music theory, composition, theater arts, recording arts, dance, movement, history, and humanities to young people ages 3-19; the conservatory promotes advocacy and leadership through its outreach of music education and art events in the colorado springs community. The conservatory obtains grants and charitable contributions in support of its operations; in addition, the conservatory provides scholarships to students based on financial needs.
$940,362 spentof which $35,273 as grants$501,073 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $940,362.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $1.6M (+15%).
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.
14% of COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION’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. 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
Nathan Halvorson
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $87k → $107k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
48% 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 SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 43% · 2019 25% · 2020 28% · 2021 30% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — 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
64% of COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k 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 SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION 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 SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: 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 SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,158,313 to it, the largest being H CHASE STONE TRUST B XXXXX5009 ($234,700). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,158,313 in grants to COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION?
- H CHASE STONE TRUST B XXXXX5009 is the largest funder on record, with $234,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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