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STREET WISE ARTS

STREET WISE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,538 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($17,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$267k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$93k
Net assets
$65k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Street Wise Arts does

Mission

To uplift artists and to build vibrant, resilient communities through public art projects, creative events and arts education programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Installed sixteen new murals for the public through the mural festival and partner mural projects. Engaged nearly 2000 students in arts education programs and 240 people in mural tour programs, and supporting 45 local artists with paid creative work.

  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $210,172 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $210,172.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2021 Revenue 186 ($167k) Expenses 158 ($130k) Net assets 579 ($45k)2022 Revenue 191 ($172k) Expenses 200 ($164k) Net assets 681 ($52k)2023 Revenue 152 ($137k) Expenses 156 ($129k) Net assets 786 ($60k)2024 Revenue 195 ($176k) Expenses 220 ($181k) Net assets 711 ($55k)2025 Revenue 297 ($267k) Expenses 312 ($257k) Net assets 842 ($65k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (297)Expenses (312)Net assets (842)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8k to $45k (+484%).

$8k
$45k
$53k
$62k
$56k
$66k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of STREET WISE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’20
$37k
’21
$8k
’22
$8k
’23
−$6k
’24
$10k
’25
3.1
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $13k.

7 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 STREET WISE 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

STREET WISE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

75% 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 STREET WISE ARTS.

19%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 66% · 2023 43% — 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

25% of STREET WISE ARTS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

75% of STREET WISE ARTS'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.

MI
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STREET WISE ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding STREET WISE ARTS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like STREET WISE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 12%Fundraising 6%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds STREET WISE ARTS?
STREET WISE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,538 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($17,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STREET WISE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $92,538 in grants to STREET WISE ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STREET WISE ARTS?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STREET WISE 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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing