Colorado · Nonprofit
EcoArts Connections
EcoArts Connections (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,126 to it, the largest being THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ($49,926). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $198k
- Net assets
- $59k
What EcoArts Connections does
Mission
PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE: The mission of EcoArts Connections is to bring together arts, science, and other fields to deepen public understanding of climate change and speed the shift to a sustainable future. Activities include commissioning, producing, presenting, and consulting on performances, exhibits, youth programs, and other events. PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Part III, Line 28 - SAN LAZARO MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY (MHC) - Activities included classes, webinars, and other activities based at San Lazaro mobile home park, attended by mostly Latinx children, youth, mothers, and/or families from San Lazaro and nearby mobile home parks focusing on sustainability, including the arts, gardening, energy conservation and weatherization, and other topics. Expenses - $29,267. Part III, Line 29 - BOULDER RIDGE AND OTHER MOBILE HOME COMMUNITIES - Activities included classes, webinars and other activities at Boulder Ridge Mobile Home Community (MHC) and/or attended virtually by other MHCs in Boulder, Lafayette, and other locations in Boulder County. Expenses - $59,562. Part III, Line 30 - OTHER PROGRAMS INCLUDING RED ALERT, LUNA CULTURA & MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM ACTIVITIES - Red Alert is a…
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
San lazaro mobile home community. See schedule o
$29,267 spent28% of program spendingBoulder ridge and other mobile home communities. See schedule o
$59,562 spent57% of program spendingOther programs including red alert. See schedule o
$15,274 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,103.
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 2021 to 2022, from $81k to $94k (+16%).
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.
91% of EcoArts Connections’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. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Marda Kirn
Executive Director
Board chair
Patrick Chandler
Co-Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $40k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 EcoArts Connections’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
EcoArts Connections has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
70% 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 EcoArts Connections.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 77% · 2019 52% · 2020 70% · 2021 100% · 2022 44% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of EcoArts Connections's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EcoArts Connections runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 EcoArts Connections receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
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 EcoArts Connections
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
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EcoArts Connections: 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 EcoArts Connections?
- EcoArts Connections (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,126 to it, the largest being THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ($49,926). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EcoArts Connections have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $198,126 in grants to EcoArts Connections, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EcoArts Connections?
- THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $49,926 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EcoArts Connections 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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