Colorado · Nonprofit
LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,734,190 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($751,295). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $719k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Latino Cultural Arts Center does
Mission
The mission of the Latino Cultural Arts Center (lcac) is to strengthen the knowledge of the extensive artistic expressions of latinos living in the u.s. And globally through education, discussion... Continued on schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Development of las bodegas, a 501(c)(3)-owned cultural campus in denver's sun valley neighborhood. In fy25, the organization advanced construction on its flagship facility at 1935 w. 12th ave. A solar-powered innovation hub for visual and digital arts production, exhibition, and workforce training. The project is funded through an 8.3 million capital stack assembled across federal, state, city, and philanthropic sources. The facility is scheduled to open in september 2026.
$331,751 spent$4,893 earned by the program75% of program spendingCultural and educational programming delivered through las bodegas, including: a multimedia production lab serving emerging artists and youth; shared artist studio space for working professionals; public art project management supporting community-designed murals and installations; youth workforce development pathways in the visual and public arts; and partnerships with local organizations at the intersection of visual arts, mental health, and environmental stewardship.
$112,527 spent25% of program spendingOfrendas: a community-wide dia de los muertos program that preserves and transmits indigenous and latino traditions of remembrance. The program includes public altar installations, intergenerational workshops on grief and healing, and culturally grounded mental wellness conversations. Ofrendas serves as a bridge between cultural practice and public health, normalizing conversations about loss within latino and indigenous communities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $444,278.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $4.4M (+98%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER’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. 0 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.
Board chair
Celina Benavidez
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $278k → $1.2M.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER’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
LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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 LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 45% · 2021 37% · 2022 31% · 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
63% of LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
58% of LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M 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
LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.5M
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
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 LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: 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 LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER?
- LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,734,190 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($751,295). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,734,190 in grants to LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $751,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LATINO CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing