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CONCRETE COUCH

CONCRETE COUCH (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,676 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($257,100). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$392k
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$825k
19/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Concrete Couch does

Mission

Design and build public art projects. Train neighborhood students in project design and construction.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Design and build public art and light infrastructure with community groups. Foster interdisciplinary, community-based music and theater programs involving job training, science and math elements.

    $223,903 spent$57,046 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $223,903.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($242k) Expenses 100 ($170k) Net assets 100 ($189k)2018 Revenue 81 ($195k) Expenses 105 ($178k) Net assets 103 ($195k)2019 Revenue 175 ($423k) Expenses 115 ($195k) Net assets 224 ($423k)2020 Revenue 139 ($336k) Expenses 136 ($231k) Net assets 279 ($529k)2021 Revenue 103 ($248k) Expenses 145 ($247k) Net assets 285 ($538k)2022 Revenue 176 ($425k) Expenses 154 ($263k) Net assets 370 ($700k)2023 Revenue 164 ($397k) Expenses 176 ($300k) Net assets 418 ($791k)2024 Revenue 162 ($392k) Expenses 210 ($358k) Net assets 436 ($825k)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (210)Net assets (436)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $195k to $423k (+117%).

$195k
$195k
$423k
$529k
$538k
$700k
$791k
$825k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of CONCRETE COUCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
’17
$17k
’18
$228k
’19
$105k
’20
$707
’21
$162k
’22
$97k
’23
$34k
’24
16
months of
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

Steve Wood

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed111111912
Joined·······+5
No longer listed·······2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $68k → $205k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CONCRETE COUCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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

CONCRETE COUCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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

46% 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 CONCRETE COUCH.

17%
largest funder
41%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 34% · 2019 39% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% — 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

53% of CONCRETE COUCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

72% of CONCRETE COUCH's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

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MI
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CO
TN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CONCRETE COUCH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve15.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CONCRETE COUCH

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONCRETE COUCH?
CONCRETE COUCH (Colorado) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,676 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($257,100). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONCRETE COUCH have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,536,676 in grants to CONCRETE COUCH, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONCRETE COUCH?
THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $257,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONCRETE COUCH 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 29 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