Colorado · Nonprofit
SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,920,254 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($499,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Swallow Hill Music Association does
Mission
Swallow hill, founded in 1979 as a non-profit music organization, brings life to concerts, classes and community across metro denver. Continued on schedule oswallow hill is home to the country's second largest acoustic music school with 53 faculty members hosting 29,000 visits annually; produces 137 concerts bringing together 45,000 concert goers each year and through community outreach programs which creates more than 77,000 music connections in under-served communities working in more than 25 schools and community organizations. Swallow hill brings together people of all ages to learn about, listen to and perform music.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, swallow hill music produced 182 concerts between the three venues at our yale location and offsite locations throughout denver including four mile historic park, the summer concert series and evenings al fresco at denver botanic gardens. We also partnered with organizations such as the denver arts & venues, clyfford still museum, two parts, the city of broomfield and butterfly pavilion to book and promote musical acts for their events. In total, through concert programming, swallow hill made over 59,000 musical connections. Our concerts highlighted international, national, and local musicians. We continue to increase our commitment to nurture homegrown talent by showcasing local music in the denver metro area, and growing bipoc, femme, and lgbtq+ artists' audiences.
$3,120,329 spent$2,593,654 earned by the program62% of program spendingAs the country's second largest acoustic music school, we continued to see excellent growth in our school in 2024. Our portfolio includes group classes, private lessons and workshops, both online and in person, taught by 51 instructors who are also professional musicians. We continue to reshape our programming offerings to reflect the diverse music and the changing population of the denver metro area. By the end of the year, we had grown to offer 700 programs to over 2400 unique students to establish more than 37,000 musical connections.
$1,285,557 spentof which $32,319 as grants$110,305 earned by the program26% of program spendingTo make music accessible across our city and state, we offer music education and programs in under-resourced communities. Our programming includes little swallows, early childhood education (ece) infused with music for preschoolers, where swallow hill partners with schools and organizations who have a majority of students that qualify for free and reduced-priced lunch and/or headstart support, and have high diversity among students. In 2024, our little swallows program was in 114 classrooms across 27 schools. Our outreach programming also includes workshops and interactive performances in k-12 schools, music therapy for veterans, and people living with developmental or mental health challenges. Across all outreach programming in 2024 we made over 86,000 musical connections.
$602,456 spent$1,074,511 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,008,342.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.7M to $6.2M (+133%).
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: 2017 10% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 32% · 2021 76% · 2022 26% · 2023 14% · 2024 13%. 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 8 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
Jessica Clark
CEO
Board chair
Walt Dehaven
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $91k → $314k.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
56% of SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION'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 $851k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$65k
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 SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION?
- SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,920,254 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($499,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,920,254 in grants to SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $499,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWALLOW HILL MUSIC ASSOCIATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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