Colorado · Nonprofit
MINERVA WEST
MINERVA WEST (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLORADO GRAND INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Minerva West does
Mission
Minerva West s mission is to provide equitable opportunities for expression, creativity and arts education to all in the community via regularly scheduled performances, youth camps, after school programs, and training in performance arts production. Minerva West aims to inspire creativity and community by offering equitable opportunities for all regardless of age, ability, race or sexual orientation. Since its founding in 2022, minerva has produced 32 shows with 107 performances involving more that 185 actors, crew and volunteers. It has established after-school youth programs at both ridgway elementary and ridgway secondary schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Minerva West is a community theater based in a small rural Colorado Town. It has grown from nothing to have over 200 citizens participate and over 4000 people attend its shows. In 2025 Minerva West Theatre Company (Adult Community Theater) produced three public productions (Death of a Salesman, I Love You/You're Perfect/Now Change, and Steel Magnolias), involving 64 actors/crew/volunteers, ages 16 - 79. Of Ridgway's approx 1250 residents, 645 attended the shows.
$13,294 spent70% of program spendingMinerva West Youth Theater Program - Secondary Level: This after school theater program serves secondary level students. Participation is free and culminates in a public performance. In 2025, productions included Beetlejuice and a Murder Mystery. 31 secondary students participated as cast, crew, and volunteers.Attendance by community members totaled 166.
$2,256 spent12% of program spendingMinerva West Youth Theatre Workshop and Performance Program - Primary level: This program provides theater arts education for kids 5-14 and is comprised of an afterschool workshop program and a summer youth theater program. The 2025 Afterschool workshops presented 2 productions (You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, and Peter Pan). The 2025 Youth Summer Theatre workshop lead to a public performance of Frozen. Workshops are tuition supported. 47 kids aged 5-13 participated.. Performance attendance totaled 417.
$3,462 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,012.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $5k to $17k (+259%).
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.
55% of MINERVA WEST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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 MINERVA WEST’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MINERVA WEST's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
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
MINERVA WEST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MINERVA WEST
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINERVA WEST: 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 MINERVA WEST?
- MINERVA WEST (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLORADO GRAND INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINERVA WEST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to MINERVA WEST.
- Who is the largest funder of MINERVA WEST?
- COLORADO GRAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINERVA WEST 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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