Colorado · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC
GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,062,907 to it, the largest being Zarpet Family Foundation ($1,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Groundworks Art Lab Inc does
Mission
To cultivate the artist in each of us by inviting creative collaboration in the study, practice, and advancement of studio arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Groundworks art lab provides hands-on art education for all ages and abilities in community spaces where people can connect. The organization offers affordable, accessible programs in wood, metal, glass, print, and clay. These "studio arts" often require equipment and facilities beyond the reach of most individuals. The organization also partner with a number of local nonprofits and agencies to provide free and reduced-rate programs outside the studio to underserved members of the community.
$2,806,020 spent$1,202,767 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,806,020.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.9M to $9.4M (+59%).
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 26% · 2018 2% · 2019 6% · 2020 12% · 2021 4% · 2022 71% · 2023 55% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $14k → $305k.
10 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC’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
GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 79% · 2019 75% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 73% · 2023 33% — 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
78% of GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $696k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: 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 GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC?
- GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,062,907 to it, the largest being Zarpet Family Foundation ($1,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,062,907 in grants to GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC?
- Zarpet Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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