Colorado · Nonprofit
Mancos Common Press Inc
Mancos Common Press Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $905k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Mancos Common Press Inc does
Mission
Restore and maintain original Mancos newspaper office, its presses and the donated Cranston Press. Provide learning and artistic opportunities involving printing presses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Mancos Common Press created a single member LLC called Mancos Commons, LLC for the purpose of constructing additional space for both their operations to provide artistic learning and opportunities as it relates to the older presses. In addition to space for Mancos Common Press, the building includes 3 residential rental apartments and one small commercial space. The leases are written and do not include any personal property or personal services provided to the tenants. Accordingly, none of the real estate leases constitute unrelated business taxable income.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Art programs relating to the design of printed materials and the operation of historic printing presses.
$70,641 spent$73,464 earned by the program61% of program spendingMancos Commons construction was completed mid-2024 and provides additional operating space for Mancos Common Press tax exempt activities and rental of affordable housing space. Affective October 2023, this additional space is owned and operated by Mancos Commons, LLC a default entity and is wholly owned by Mancos Commons Press, Inc.
$44,761 spent$826,744 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,402.
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 $365k to $1.9M (+417%).
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: 2022 6% · 2023 89% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Mancos Common Press Inc’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Tami Graham
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Mancos Common Press 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
Mancos Common Press Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
“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
Mancos Common Press Inc draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
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.
Against its field
Mancos Common Press Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Mancos Common Press 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
94%
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 Mancos Common Press 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 Mancos Common Press Inc?
- Mancos Common Press Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mancos Common Press Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $130,000 in grants to Mancos Common Press Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Mancos Common Press Inc?
- HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mancos Common Press 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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