Colorado · Nonprofit
JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER
JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($200,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $253k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $88k
What JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER does
Mission
To cultivate culturally diverse literary, visual, and performing arts programming; to provide platforms for inter-cultural conversations; and to disseminate knowledge from diverse cultural perspectives. The Organization is dedicated to multiculturalism and diversity in its programming and strives to build societal equity through providing free access to arts programming and free outreach workshops exploring arts and culture in under-served and marginalized communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The 2024 JLF Colorado International Literature Festival was held in conjunction with the Boulder Public Library over 2 days in September, a festival of ideas, imagination, innovation, and inspiration. The festival presented 34 free hour-long sessions by 65 speakers from the US and other countries and 2 musical performances. Footfall was about 7,000, with a social media reach of about 5 million.
$297,477 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $297,477.
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 2018 to 2019, from $51k to $144k (+184%).
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 23% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2022 29% · 2023 22% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michael Carter
Temp.Exec. Dir.
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $120k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER’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
JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 88% · 2019 46% · 2020 90% · 2021 49% · 2022 83% · 2023 90% — 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
55% of JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER'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 $195k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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 JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER?
- JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($200,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $436,900 in grants to JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JLF COLORADO dba JLF BOULDER 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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