Colorado · Nonprofit
Muse Performance Space aka The Muse
Muse Performance Space aka The Muse (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,025 to it, the largest being MUSIC MATTERS FUND INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Muse Performance Space aka The Muse does
Mission
To provide a space for musicians and artists to present their work, as well as a space for student recitals, concerts and educational workshops
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supported community jazz education by hosting CU Thompson Jazz Studies Recitals at a deeply discounted rate. These events, held between February and April, included livestream and recording services while keeping costs low for participants. The organization absorbed additional utility and operating expenses to make the recitals accessible.
$1,100 spent20% of program spendingProvided discounted space for the monthly Oh Snap Free Improv Jam, reducing rental costs from the standard rate to a fraction of the price. This allowed local musicians and audiences to enjoy an affordable creative outlet. We covered the difference in costs along with utilities to sustain the program.
$2,210 spent39% of program spendingDonated venue time to the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts Adult Jazz Jam, supporting a fellow nonprofits mission. We also ran the monthly Muse Jazz Jam, hiring professional musicians to mentor participants regardless of audience donations. These programs helped foster community engagement and skill development in an inclusive, low-cost environment.
$2,300 spent41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $35k to $64k (+84%).
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.
10% of Muse Performance Space aka The Muse’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 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of Muse Performance Space aka The Muse’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
Muse Performance Space aka The Muse leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Muse Performance Space aka The Muse draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Muse Performance Space aka The Muse's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Muse Performance Space aka The Muse
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
100%
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 Muse Performance Space aka The Muse: 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 Muse Performance Space aka The Muse?
- Muse Performance Space aka The Muse (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,025 to it, the largest being MUSIC MATTERS FUND INC ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Muse Performance Space aka The Muse have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,025 in grants to Muse Performance Space aka The Muse.
- Who is the largest funder of Muse Performance Space aka The Muse?
- MUSIC MATTERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Muse Performance Space aka The Muse 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 2021–2024), 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