Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP
DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,395,896 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($418,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $-140199
What Denver Biennial of the Americas Corp does
Mission
The mission of the biennial of the americas is to create connections, build community, and inspire change across the americas through the transformative power of ideas and art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our leadership series, the americas summit, americas leadership luncheon, and roundtable series, highlights innovative voices in colorado and across the americas through timely discussions on today's challenges, resolved through cross-collaboration and learning from one another. In 2025, 85 colorado leaders joined 180+ colleagues in vancouver for the americas summit across 20 panels and site visits; the americas leadership luncheon brought together 450+ leaders, artists, and innovators with 12 speakers from 10 countries; and 12 roundtables convened 250+ attendees for conversations on storytelling, design, food, and indigenous knowledge across the cultural economy.
$1,046,631 spent$439,565 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe biennial further amplifies the wide variety of cultures across the western hemisphere through our plaza programming, public art, and the biennial festival. These installations and events uplift artists and creatives from across the americas and expose coloradans to their work and its cultural value. In 2025, the festival transformed writer's square into a shared gathering place for 12 days, welcoming 10,000+ visitors through 8 public activations including live music, dance performances, fashion shows, and visual art displays, produced alongside 75+ colorado creatives. In conjunction with these displays, we offer community programming meant to encourage attendees to engage more deeply with the art and create some of their own.
The biennial additionally offers a wide variety of year-round educational arts, culture, and community-focused programming. Culture club membership brings a diverse, intergenerational group of coloradans together for behind-the-scenes access to creative spaces, while culture trips offer members immersive international experiences that deepen cross-cultural connection. In 2025, this growing network of 330+ members gathered through 50+ culture hops and 12+ monthly events, with 20% of memberships offered at a discounted or free rate to increase accessibility.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,046,631.
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 2017 to 2018, from $377k to $72k (−81%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Maria Garcia Berry
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income fell $452k → $305k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP’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
DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 50% · 2019 34% · 2020 62% · 2021 62% · 2022 43% · 2023 59% — 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
27% of DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
61% of DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP'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 $549k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $847k 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.
Against its field
DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP's revenue fell 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP?
- DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,395,896 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($418,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,395,896 in grants to DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $418,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP 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 21 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