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CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER
CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,461 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($81,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $403k
- Net assets
- $325k
What Cortez Center Inc Dba Cortez Cultural Center does
Mission
The mission of the Cortez Cultural Center is to provide programs that enrich the lives of our community and its visitors by increasing cultural awareness, promoting the arts, and educating about the area's history, diversity and natural environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gallery Exhibits and Opening ReceptionsFor the past several years (before, during and since the Pandemic) the Centers gallery exhibits featuring local artists were few and far between. Since July 2023, this has become our major focus with five different exhibits and opening receptions in 2024.We featured a new exhibit every month throughout 2024, with various themes, one-person, group exhibits, and installations.Last year, about 30 artists participated in the gallery exhibits. Age is not a factor and we will work with small children this year (the Historic Cortez Coloring Book Contest Exhibit, in collaboration with the Montezuma Heritage Museum and LOR Foundation, with submissions from all ages), Southwest Open School (SWOS, high-school graduates art exhibit), and local artists of all ages who answer calls and come to us with their ideas.Many of the exhibits are curated with community member artists joining the committees. Often, they are planned around a theme (such as Avian Art during our annual Birding Festival in May, and Recycled Art made from food wrappers during our Everybody Eats event in October). In all exhibits we strive to keep the exhibits in harmony with the context…
$40,526 spent$9,500 earned by the program56% of program spendingNative American DancesOur Native American Dance program is our signature program, which showcases local indigenous dancers, drummers, and singers who share their traditional stories and songs with the community in the Centers outdoor plaza and dancing circle. For over 26 years, we have presented this nightly program throughout the Summer, June - August, where the traditional dances and songs have been passed down through four generations of performers. Audience members are encouraged to participate with the performers in the Circle Dance and engage directly with the dancers after each performance.The Native American Dances are an hour-long performance that happen five nights per week for an 8-12 week period.Over 2,000 audience members of all ages attended 60 performances in 2024.38 Ute and Din singers, dancers, drummers, and storytellers from four generations ranging from 3 to 78 years old, performed with one another and their audiences.The Native American Dance program is free to the audience, but the performers are paid an honorarium for each and every performance through grant funding.Visitors to the area make it a point to attend our Native American Dances and, as the tourism…
$20,000 spent$20,000 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe Annual Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival provides a popular venue for visiting southwestern Colorado during the second weekend in May. Nestled between alpine and mesa forests and scenic desert canyons, the Four Corners intriguingly diverse landscapes, and mild climate, have drawn people to the region for generations. Ancestral Pueblo farmers dwelled in places now known as Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and Canyon of the Ancients. Todays meadows, pastures, cultivated fields, historic orchards, stock ponds and reservoirs establish habitat for a wide-spectrum of migratory and resident birds. Some species, such as Lucys Warbler, are found no place else in Colorado
$11,514 spent$25,662 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $72,040.
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.
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 $254k to $331k (+30%).
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 30% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 64% · 2021 18% · 2022 24% · 2023 13% · 2024 77% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $18k → $103k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 66% · 2022 55% · 2023 78% — 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
20% of CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER?
- CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,461 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($81,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $403,461 in grants to CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER 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 19 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