Colorado · Nonprofit
RECREATIVE DENVER
RECREATIVE DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,985 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($10,505). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $540k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Recreative Denver does
Mission
Recreative Denver is dedicated to cultivating creativity, community and environmental stewardship through creative reuse and arts education. We operate a reuse store for arts and crafts supplies in addition to our community art center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artist studio, woodworking workshop and community event space: Provided low-cost artist studio rentals to 12 artists, and maintained a woodworking workshop used by 10 community members. Expenses reflect costs related to facilities occupancy; office expenses; information technology; business licenses; banking fees; merchant fees; insurance; professional development; payroll taxes; and wages and benefits for our key employees.
$377,831 spent$59,809 earned by the program80% of program spendingCreative reuse store: Accepted 25,880 pounds of donated arts and crafts supplies for resale to over 19,000 customers in our retail store. Expenses reflect costs related to operating our retail store and wages for our retail staff.
$77,664 spent$379,397 earned by the program16% of program spendingProvided art classes for over 350 people through on-site and outreach programming, hosted two craft fairs for 30 local artists, and exhibited artworks by six emerging artists in our art gallery. An estimated 4,000 community members attended our monthly exhibition openings and craft fairs. Expenses reflect payments to subcontractors; advertising; printing and reproduction; and program supplies.
$15,500 spentof which $8,000 as grants$25,668 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $470,995.
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 2024 to 2025, from $31k to $100k (+224%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 6% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of RECREATIVE DENVER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Emily Korson
Executive Director
Board chair
Cal Duran
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $71.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 RECREATIVE DENVER’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
RECREATIVE DENVER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
98% 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 RECREATIVE DENVER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 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
98% of RECREATIVE DENVER'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 $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
RECREATIVE DENVER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RECREATIVE DENVER
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RECREATIVE DENVER: 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 RECREATIVE DENVER?
- RECREATIVE DENVER (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,985 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($10,505). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RECREATIVE DENVER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $10,985 in grants to RECREATIVE DENVER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RECREATIVE DENVER?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RECREATIVE DENVER 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 4 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