Colorado · Nonprofit
MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS
MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,706 to it, the largest being Montrose Community Foundation ($24,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Montrose Center for Arts does
Mission
Montrose Center for Arts operates a community art center for the purpose of celebrating the joy of art and encouraging creativity and diversity within the community. The Center's programs include operating gallery spaces with approx 12 themed artist shows per year for the display and sale of art created by local artisans, hosting artist receptions and community art talks, offering affordable art classes, managing a community-based art exhibits program (AIM), and developing youth-oriented programs designed to increase art awareness and the availability of art supplies to area youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
COMMUNITY AND MEMBER-BASED ART GALLERY providing local artists a venue to show and sell their art with a low cost commission rate of 30% to MCA. Expense noted is actual expenses for gallery. It does not include artists portion of sale that are noted on line 7B of the 990EZ
$4,826 spent53% of program spendingCOMMUNITY ACCESSIBLE ART CLASSES - reasonably priced art classes open to members and non-members In 2025 we we only able to offer only 8 classes due to rebuilding of the program.
$2,391 spent26% of program spendingYOUTH ART LOCKER PROGRAM - provides easy access to $150 worth of art supplies per fiscal year to area art educators via a simple online request form. In 2025 9 schools participated. Program was launched in November 2025
$1,244 spent14% of program spendingMisc Program activites
$664 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $82k to $44k (−46%).
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.
45% of MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS’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. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $27k → $3k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS’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
MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS runs a healthier operating margin 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 MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS
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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS?
- MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,706 to it, the largest being Montrose Community Foundation ($24,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $61,706 in grants to MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS?
- Montrose Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $24,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTROSE CENTER FOR ARTS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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