Colorado · Nonprofit
THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING
THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,143,677 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($173,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $150k
What Think 360 Arts for Learning does
Mission
To engage coloradans of all ages in innovative arts education programming that inspires creativity, builds community, & advances equity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing and presenting assembly programs, workshops, and residencies in schools and community settings by professional artists. Each year, these programs engage thousands of colorado students and community members, expanding access to high-quality arts learning while providing paid opportunities for professional artists across urban, rural, and underserved communities. Annual program activity includes more than 170 programs delivered in partnership with over 90 schools and community venues statewide.
$587,611 spent$118,059 earned by the program55% of program spendingPresenting teacher training institutes in partnership with the university of northern colorado to assist teachers in integrating the arts into their lesson plans. Through multi-day institutes and related trainings, this program provides educators with strategies to integrate the arts into classroom instruction. Professional development offerings, including the institute for creative teaching, collectively serve over 1,200 educators each year.
Developing the equity in arts learning for colorado youth grant and regranting philanthropic funds statewide. This initiative annually regrants hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to schools and nonprofits across colorado, supporting arts programming for young people in communities facing barriers to arts access. Since its launch, the program has awarded nearly 1 million to schools and organizations across colorado through a competitive grantmaking process.
$485,000 spentof which $485,000 as grants45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,072,611.
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 2023 to 2024, from $499k to $308k (−38%).
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 52% · 2018 59% · 2019 51% · 2020 52% · 2021 50% · 2022 61% · 2023 55% · 2024 48% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Jillian Kelly
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $34k → $167k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING’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
THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 42% · 2019 33% · 2020 37% · 2021 33% · 2022 45% · 2023 33% — 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
58% of THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
96% of THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $468k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$165k
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 THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING: 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 THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING?
- THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,143,677 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($173,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,143,677 in grants to THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $173,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING 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 20 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