Colorado · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS
THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,200 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($171,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $582k
- Net assets
- $-27541
What The Americas for the Arts does
Mission
AFC+A is a Latina-founded and -led organization fighting systemic racism in the conservation and creative workspaces, leveraging arts and culture for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) gains and through three flagship programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promotores verdes: our flagship education program advancing a culture of outdoor recreation, conservation, and public health anchored in nature experiences and a sustainable outdoors economy through the annual americas latino eco festival (alef), the summer youth environmental camps (ucan),and the family based year round programming with training and certification.
$625,289 spent$917,900 earned by the program96% of program spendingMandel vilar press: our publishing arm advancing diversity and conservation in the book industry
$23,030 spent$45,479 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $648,319.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $343k to $196k (−43%).
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 48% · 2019 48% · 2021 47% · 2022 106% · 2023 91% · 2024 96% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Irene Vilar
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $130k → $10k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 THE AMERICAS FOR THE 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
THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 86% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — 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
0% of THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 14% 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
THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS's revenue fell 42% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $547k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$547k
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 THE AMERICAS FOR THE 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS: 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 THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS?
- THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,200 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($171,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $582,200 in grants to THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAS FOR THE ARTS?
- NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $171,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAS FOR THE 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.
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 14 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