Colorado · Nonprofit
ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION
ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,535 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($214,966). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $878k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $726k
What Rocky Ridge Music Center Foundation does
Mission
Rocky ridge music exists to elevate the musician inside each of us to the highest level through a unique, holistic approach - meeting every student where they are, helping them to learn, create, enjoy, and support music - ultimately making all of us more fulfilled as humans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer seminars music instructionyouth programs rocky ridge music center's youth program offers everything from half hour lessons to a month-long residential music intensive for college students at its estes park location. During the four weeks of college intensive, students between the ages 18 to 24 receive two weekly private lessons, perform six solo and chamber concerts, delve deeply into advanced chamber music and perform for their peers and the public at our historic concert hall and in the community. In addition, college students attend panel discussions about the music industry, and take part in mock auditions and receive feedback from seasoned orchestral musicians. In two weeks of junior music programs, students between the ages 10 to 17 hone their skills and develop their unique musical voices through composition, ensembles, performance, and private tutorials. Additionally, students collaborate to compose a new orchestral work for the final concert. Junior artist composers receive readings by faculty as well as premiere performance and recording of their works. They also have the option to challenge themselves further through study of advanced classical repertoire. We…
$646,881 spentof which $86,096 as grants$467,281 earned by the program96% of program spendingPreservation of our historic facility.preservation and modernization of our historical campus is an ongoing effort and part of our board's focus. This year we invested $30,927 in capital expenditures to upgrade facilities and conversions to other other uses. Our facility was homesteaded and constructed as an inn in the early 1900s, occupied by rocky ridge since 1951, and was declared a national historic district in the early 1990s. The rustic historic feel is integral to the intimate, personal nature of our music education experience. Nature and community are part of our mission statement and the small student body and the close communal living in rustic cabins reinforce the mutual support the students feel for each other's accomplishments. Thus, it is imperative that we preserve the historic nature of our facility while carefully modernizing it to meet current safety codes and student expectations. By modernizing our campus, our goal is to keep the accommodations comfortable for today's students' expectations - both adult and youth - so that our program and the facility continue and prosper. It has also been necessary to bring the facility up to current safety codes which we have…
$26,120 spent4% of program spendingMusical academies in boulderthe music academy offers outreach programs in partnership with public schools and special seminars and concerts at the year-round location in boulder downtown.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $673,001.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $1.1M to $847k (−21%).
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: 2021 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Soyoung Lee
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $67k → $20k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION’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
ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 50% · 2019 47% · 2020 75% · 2021 61% · 2022 56% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
55% of ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION'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 $134k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION?
- ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,535 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($214,966). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $436,535 in grants to ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $214,966 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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