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Flatirons Community Orchestra

Flatirons Community Orchestra (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $795 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($495). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$10k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$795
Net assets
$5k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Flatirons Community Orchestra does

Mission

The organization 1 provides an opportunity for community members who have an interest in instrumental music to participate in an organization with others and 2 provides performances for public occasions such as benefits for charitable or civic organi

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Held weekly two-hour rehearsals for up to 75 orchestra musicians. Practiced repertoire to prepare for five concert performances.

    $24,604 spent
    77% of program spending
  2. Performed five orchestral concerts and one chamber ensemble concert, free of charge to the general public. Audience attendance ranged from 65 at the chamber concert to 220-300 attendees for the orchestral performances. The concerts featured local soloists, a local composer and student musician soloists. The repertoire ranged from classical to Latinx composed pieces to pops, from original compositions to long-time favorite pieces. Audience members are educated about the pieces being performed, and all concerts are family-friendly and open to all.

    $7,372 spent
    23% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,976.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $401 → $156.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 Flatirons Community Orchestra’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

Flatirons Community Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

62% 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 Flatirons Community Orchestra.

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

62% of Flatirons Community Orchestra'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 $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $495 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Flatirons Community Orchestra receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $795 to it.

Operating margin−20% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Flatirons Community Orchestra?
Flatirons Community Orchestra (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $795 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($495). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Flatirons Community Orchestra have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $795 in grants to Flatirons Community Orchestra, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Flatirons Community Orchestra?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $495 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Flatirons Community Orchestra 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 2 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