Colorado · Nonprofit
DANCEASPEN
DANCEASPEN (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $728,830 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($491,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $729k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Danceaspen does
Mission
Danceaspen advances contemporary dance through performance, creation, and education. We bring artists and communities together through bold choreography, meaningful collaboration, and transformative experiences on stage, in schools, and across communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Danceaspen expanded its artistic, educational, and community impact through a dynamic season of performance, new creation, and outreach. The company presented seven public performances and multiple special events, reaching more than 3,200 audience members across colorado and wyoming. The season included two mainstage productions at the wheeler opera house-ember glow and shifting forms-as well as appearances at tacaw, the vail dance festival, and touring engagements in fort collins, crested butte, rifle, and gillette. Danceaspen commissioned and premiered 11 new works by company artists and nationally recognized choreographers, including princess grace award recipients and leading contemporary dance makers. Through dancestart and other educational initiatives, the organization served more than 1,200 students, teachers, seniors, and individuals with special needs across the roaring fork valley and beyond. Community outreach programs, free performances, masterclasses, demonstrations, and partnerships with organizations including the aspen art museum, hotel jerome, pitkin county senior center, best buddies, aspen music festival, and tacaw engaged more than 900 participants.…
$725,633 spentof which $3,006 as grants$112,025 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $725,633.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+47%).
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: 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of DANCEASPEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $150k → $222k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 DANCEASPEN’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
DANCEASPEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 DANCEASPEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 70% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of DANCEASPEN'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 $130k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $599k 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
DANCEASPEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DANCEASPEN
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
79%
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 DANCEASPEN: 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 DANCEASPEN?
- DANCEASPEN (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $728,830 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($491,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DANCEASPEN have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $728,830 in grants to DANCEASPEN, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANCEASPEN?
- ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $491,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANCEASPEN 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 20 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