Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND
COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,697,069 to it, the largest being Avenir Foundation Inc ($4,542,719). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $98M
What Colorado Symphony Fund does
Mission
Colorado Symphony Fund's primary purpose is to support the colorado symphony association organization engaged in the performance of symphonic concerts in the denver metropolitan and surrounding tri-state areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's primary purpose is to raise, hold, and administer funds for a permanent endowment for the long-term operating needs of the colorado symphony association, a related organization engaged in the performance of symphonic concerts in the denver metropolitan and surrounding tri-state areas.
$3,707,851 spentof which $3,707,851 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,707,851.
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 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $87M (+240%).
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.
24% of COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND’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. 2 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
Steve Brett
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.0M → $543k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $492k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Colorado Symphony Association). These are real filings, and they are not money COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND’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 SYMPHONY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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 SYMPHONY FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Colorado Symphony Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND: 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 SYMPHONY FUND?
- COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,697,069 to it, the largest being Avenir Foundation Inc ($4,542,719). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $4,697,069 in grants to COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND?
- Avenir Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,542,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO SYMPHONY FUND 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.
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 4 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