Colorado · Nonprofit
TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS
TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,235,981 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,130,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $994k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Telluride Council for the Arts and Human Dba Telluride Arts does
Mission
Telluride arts vitalizes the region by advancing the appreciation and participation in the arts through three main program areas: providing resources for regional artists; connecting diverse audiences with dynamic and broard local arts offerings; and advocacy and planning, ensuring the arts inform local decision making.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, telluride arts presented a range of exhibitions, public programs, and community events designed to increase access to the arts and connect artists with audiences. The organization hosted rotating group exhibitions at its west pacific street gallery headquarters featuring local and regional artists, and continued to produce the telluride art walk, a monthly event activating galleries, businesses, and public spaces throughout the community. Telluride arts also presented its annual holiday arts bazaar and a year-round makers market inside its gallery headquarters, providing opportunities for artists to showcase and sell their work. Through its art in public places program, the organization curated and installed exhibitions in accessible locations such as the wilkinson public library and citizens state bank, and is working in partnership with town of mountain village leadership to install exhibits and public art in the civic core, integrating art into everyday community spaces. Additional programming included free performances, artist talks, and many collaborative events with local partners. These efforts served residents and visitors alike, supporting a vibrant creative…
$306,755 spent$7,559 earned by the program29% of program spendingIn 2025, telluride arts provided critical support to artists and community organizations by offering space, resources, fiscal sponsorship and professional development opportunities. The organization also provided fiscal sponsorship for community-based projects, including the augment music festival, enabling independent initiatives to operate and serve the community.through its space for the arts program, the organization made its main street and pacific street galleries available for exhibitions, rehearsals, meetings, and events, hosting or co-hosting numerous free and low-cost community programs in partnership with local nonprofits, musicians, and cultural groups. Telluride arts continued to offer initiatives such as creative exchange and salon nights, which foster professional development, collaboration, and peer connection among artists. The organization also supported artists and creative projects through fiscal sponsorship and provided promotion through its website, newsletter, and social media platforms, helping artists reach broader audiences. In addition, telluride arts maintained its role as a connector within the regional arts ecosystem, facilitating a creative…
$399,346 spentof which $3,116 as grants$18,308 earned by the program38% of program spendingIn 2025, telluride arts continued its commitment to directly supporting artists and creative projects through its grantmaking programs. The telluride arts artist grant program provided funding for materials, project development, and professional advancement for artists across the region. We fund creative work across disciplinesfrom poetry and theater to dance, visual and studio art, and music. Grant categories for all disciplines include project-based awards, professional development grants, and community engagement funding, supporting a wide range of artistic disciplines and initiatives. Grantees present completed work through exhibitions and public programs at the organization's gallery and other community locations, providing accessible arts experiences for the public. In addition, the organization administered targeted funding opportunities such as the social justice artist grant, which supports the creation of new work addressing relevant social issues, with selected projects contributing to public exhibitions and community dialogue. Through these programs, telluride arts distributed funding to artists and organizations, enabling the creation of new work, expanding access to…
$357,975 spentof which $47,776 as grants34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,064,076.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.2M to $9.5M (+53%).
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 29% · 2018 8% · 2019 4% · 2020 26% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2024 85% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jessica Galbo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $181k → $969k.
18 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
86% 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 TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 50% · 2019 67% · 2020 55% · 2021 54% · 2022 25% · 2023 30% — 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
39% of TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
83% of TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE 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 $720k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $815k on record.
- Department of the Interior$750k
- National Endowment for the Arts$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 TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS?
- TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,235,981 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,130,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $4,235,981 in grants to TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,130,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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