Colorado · Nonprofit
DURANGO PLAYFEST
DURANGO PLAYFEST (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,033 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($162,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $355k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Durango Playfest does
Mission
Our mission is to attract nationally known and emerging artists to durango, to engage and educate the community while bolstering economic vitality through the development of new works in an intimate and collaborative forum. We strive to make professional artistic expertise and experience accessible to students, educators and community members in the four courners region and provide a nurturing environment for playwrights to develop their work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Accomplishments for the fiscal year ended september 30, 2024: - planned and executed the 2024 festival, featuring diverse voices and topics. - added additional readings. - featured free workshops and panel discussions for the community. - hired as many flc students/alumni and community members into positions such as stage manager, assistant stage manager, driver, production assistant, actor and intern. - increased number of corporate sponsors. - continued speaker series for high school and college students in march 2024. Goals for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2025: - plan and execute the 2025 festival, featuring diverse voices and topics. - increase number of play readings. - hire as many flc students/alumni and community members into positions such as stage manager, assistant stage manager, driver, production assistant, actor and intern. - recruit corporate sponsors. - increase number of youth speaker series events to two. - implement playwright residency program.
$129,732 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $129,732.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $7k to $59k (+765%).
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.
82% of DURANGO PLAYFEST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $2k → $100k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 DURANGO PLAYFEST’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
DURANGO PLAYFEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 DURANGO PLAYFEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 44% · 2022 58% · 2023 45% — 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
100% of DURANGO PLAYFEST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
77% of DURANGO PLAYFEST'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 $83k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $272k 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
DURANGO PLAYFEST's revenue grew 35% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DURANGO PLAYFEST
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.
Public support
83%
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 DURANGO PLAYFEST: 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 DURANGO PLAYFEST?
- DURANGO PLAYFEST (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,033 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($162,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DURANGO PLAYFEST have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $355,033 in grants to DURANGO PLAYFEST, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DURANGO PLAYFEST?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $162,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DURANGO PLAYFEST 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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