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FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS

FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being SCHLESINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$113k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500
Net assets
$46k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Focus on Book Arts does

Mission

to present a bi-annual educational conference on book arts

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Workshops Focus on Book Arts presented a conference in June 2024 offering 29 one- to three-day workshops over a 5-day period 190 attendees took classes in bookbinding surface decoration printmaking box making and other areas of interest

    $51,678 spent
    63% of program spending

  2. Conference Hospitality In addition to classes the Focus on Book Arts conference provided a book arts camp atmosphere by offering additional activities and events including an artists shop trade show faculty-staff exhibit keynote speaker presentation and more 55 attendees plus faculty staff and volunteers lived and dined on campus during the conference

    $29,429 spent
    36% of program spending

  3. Outreach and Publicity Focus on Book Arts hosted a juried online exhibition with local national and international participants upgraded its website publicizing the conference maintained a strong social media presence not only to promote the conference but to promote book arts in general and offered three fellowships to encourage program accessibility

    $1,563 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,670.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS’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.

Where its funders are

FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

OR

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FOCUS ON BOOK 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

The Center for Fine Art Photography Inc72%Bookcliffs Council on the Arts & Humanities71%Ah Haa School for the Arts70%Durango Playfest70%Buddhist Arts and Film Festival70%Wolverine Farm Publishing70%Louisville Art Association Inc70%ENGLEWOOD DEPOT INC aka Letterpress Depot69%

Nationally

Central Print75%San Diego Book Arts75%The Columbia Book Festival Inc75%Minnesota Center for Book Arts75%Fall for the Book Inc74%Pike Artworks74%Broadleaf Writers Association Inc73%The Book Arts Press Inc73%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS: 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 FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS?
FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being SCHLESINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS.
Who is the largest funder of FOCUS ON BOOK ARTS?
SCHLESINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOCUS ON BOOK 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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