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DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION

DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,849 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($279,357). 14 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.

$835k
Revenue FY2025
28
Funders on record
$780k
Grants received
$917k
Net assets
14/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($593k) Expenses 100 ($587k) Net assets 100 ($558k)2018 Revenue 102 ($605k) Expenses 100 ($590k) Net assets 107 ($598k)2019 Revenue 164 ($976k) Expenses 176 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($560k)2020 Revenue 105 ($624k) Expenses 96 ($562k) Net assets 107 ($597k)2021 Revenue 101 ($598k) Expenses 85 ($496k) Net assets 147 ($822k)2022 Revenue 129 ($768k) Expenses 111 ($652k) Net assets 146 ($816k)2023 Revenue 133 ($790k) Expenses 129 ($759k) Net assets 151 ($845k)2024 Revenue 125 ($741k) Expenses 134 ($786k) Net assets 150 ($837k)2025 Revenue 141 ($835k) Expenses 137 ($806k) Net assets 164 ($917k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (137)Net assets (164)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 12% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 28% · 2023 24% · 2024 23% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
17
$15k
18
$57k
19
$62k
20
$101k
21
$116k
22
$31k
23
$45k
24
$29k
25
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $29k → $92k.

7 of 28 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 YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’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 YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION.

36%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 65% · 2019 41% · 2020 27% · 2021 42% · 2022 31% · 2023 48%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

38% of DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

61% of DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION'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 $302k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Colorado funders.

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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. $478k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 15%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

88%

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 DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: 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 YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,849 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($279,357). 14 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 YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $779,849 in grants to DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $279,357 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DENVER YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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.

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 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing