Colorado · Nonprofit
THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION
THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $167,070 to it, the largest being DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ($167,070). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION's revenue grew 33% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Caring for Denver Foundationlocal
- The Gilman Family Foundationportfolio match
- Stockman Family Foundation Trustportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Caring for Denver FoundationlocalCO · funds 203 organizations near you
- The Gilman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stockman Family Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zeppelin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sakana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nelson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avenir Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sgm Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The O'Neal Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Favrot Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter K Barker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bardsley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Denver Center for Performing Arts · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION?
- THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $167,070 to it, the largest being DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ($167,070). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $167,070 in grants to THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION?
- DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $167,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HELEN G BONFILS FOUNDATION 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing