Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC
DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Denver Fringe Festival Inc does
Mission
The Denver Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access festival that supports bold, progressive arts and diverse voices in all genres of performance arts. Our primary purpose is to support independent artists and promote access to original performing arts - theatre, comedy, improv, aerial, dance, immersive experiences and more.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Produced a 4-day performing arts festival that included: 200 performances; 53 independent performers/performing groups; 15 performance venues; a two-day KidsFringe mini-fest with four (4) free shows for kids and families; free events including four performances by a local circus troupe, live mural painting, free tango demonstration, free marketing workshops and community-building events. Involved 250 writers, directors, designers and performers who benefited from the festival; 30 volunteers who contributed 150-200 person-hours during the festival; 4,000+ audience members who enjoyed shows and festival performances.
$55,763 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,763.
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 2022 to 2023, from $44k to $66k (+51%).
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.
37% of DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 FRINGE FESTIVAL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC: 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 DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC?
- DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC?
- BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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