Colorado · Nonprofit
MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC
MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $338k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Mile High Youth Theatre Inc does
Mission
MHYTs mission is to create theatre experiences that allow students to thrive artistically socially and emotionally. We believe that in teaching empathy through the performing arts we will not only nurture exceptional artists but exceptional humans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
MHYT offers both full and half-day theatre summer camp programming for youth ages 4+.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
MHYT offers full-scale production opportunities each semester for youth performers both on-site at our rehearsal space and at professional venues throughout the Denver metro area.
$158,142 spent$109,216 earned by the program55% of program spendingMHYT provides theatre classes on-site for students ages 4-18 each semester.
$54,278 spent$74,475 earned by the program19% of program spendingMHYT runs both full and half-day summer camp programming for youth ages 4+.
$53,684 spent$76,651 earned by the program19% of program spendingMHYT brings accessible and engaging in-school theatre programming directly to schools in the Denver area. During the 24-25 school year MHYT taught classes five days a week for DSST Conservatory Green High School.
$22,018 spent$24,081 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $288,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $49k to $129k (+161%).
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: 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 2 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
Christina Roberts
Executive Director
Board chair
Lacey Ruskin
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE 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
MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
50% 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 MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC.
“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
50% of MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE 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 MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC?
- MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILE HIGH YOUTH THEATRE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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