Colorado · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS
DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,105,966 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($417,386). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $695k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Downtown Aurora Visual Arts does
Mission
To engage diverse youth in meaningful arts education that sparks creativity, increases opportunity & strengthens community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family arts serves children (ages 3-6) and parents/guardians during free programming designed to increase school readiness, creativity, and motor skills. The family arts program reinforces the message that families are an integral part of community cultural development, assuring that kids of all ages have access to quality arts activities.
$655,791 spent100% of program spendingThe open studio program is the main point of entry for young artists at dava. Open studio is a drop-in program for students after school, monday through friday. Participants (ages 6-14) choose from a variety of arts projects, including ceramics, drawing, painting, sculptures, collage, and mixed media projects.
Job training in the arts & technology (jt) programs include studio and computer art lab arts sessions for middle school youth. Jt addresses key developmental years between the ages of 11-14 through advanced arts learning and community involvement.
Creative action by teens for high school students boosts advanced skill- building for college and careers through design projects with real world "clients- and partners. Teens get to work with specialized guest artists and new technology. Davas traveling art school (tas) seeks to extend arts learning to a wide population of residents, especially those with little or no access to the arts. Davas traveling program brings quality art experiences to local schools and community organizations, complete with art supplies and professionally trained art teachers. Pasch is a fee-based program with the unique capability to tailor projects to meet the interests, needs, and ages of any group.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $655,791.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $2.0M (−9%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 33% · 2020 30% · 2021 36% · 2022 50% · 2023 38% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Ramesh Cooke
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $126k → $271k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
60% 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 DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 41% · 2019 16% · 2020 30% · 2021 38% · 2022 38% · 2023 15% — 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
56% of DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
89% of DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $730k 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
DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS 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 DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS
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
83% 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 DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS?
- DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,105,966 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($417,386). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,105,966 in grants to DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS?
- MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $417,386 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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