Colorado · Nonprofit
SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL
SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,827 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($5,227). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $144k
What Summit County Arts Council does
Mission
A membership organization promoting the visual arts in Summit County by supporting showcasing local artists, Grants to the local school district supporting the art classes, paying for Summit county art teachers to attend the Colorado Art Education Association fall conference, and awarding scholarships to students attending higher education studying art, Arts @ Altitude A weekend event in the fall with invited artists to showcase and sell Merchandise in cooperation with the Town of Frisco Fall Festival. Arts Alive a Coop gallery giving local artists gallery exposure not otherwise available to them in the summit county area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Arts Alive A co-op art gallery giving local artists gallery exposure not otherwise available to them in the summit county area. This is a benefit to approximately 35 to 40 local artists.
$48,351 spent81% of program spendingArts @ Altitude A weekend event in the fall with invited artists to showcase and sell merchandise. This fall event is in conjunction with the Town of Frisco Fall Festival.
$5,171 spent9% of program spendingScholarships and Grants. A donation to Summit County School District to support the Art Classes. We award scholarships to local students attending higher education studying art.
$6,328 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,850.
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 2020 to 2021, from $46k to $87k (+90%).
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.
27% of SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $5k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL’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
SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
97% of SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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
SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: 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 SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL?
- SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,827 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($5,227). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $14,827 in grants to SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing