Colorado · Nonprofit
VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,816 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($220,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc does
Mission
The purposes and objectives of the vilar performing arts center is to promote and develop awareness of and appreciation of the arts and to educate the general public about the arts through the ownership and operation of a theater by presenting a variety of year-round performances including concerts, comedy, dance, film, broadway, family shows and more.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The theater opened to the general public in february of 1998 for its premier season, offering a wide variety of programming for the performing arts. As of may 31, 2025, the organization is primarily engaged in promoting and developing awareness of and the appreciation of the arts and educating the general public about the arts through the ownership and/or operation of the theatre.
$7,176,355 spentof which $23,287 as grants$3,356,910 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,176,355.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $13M to $22M (+67%).
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: 2018 66% · 2020 37% · 2021 97% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 5% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 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.
Board chair
Chris Jarnot
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $70k → $251k.
11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Vail Valley Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
43% 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 VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 22% · 2019 27% · 2020 18% · 2021 40% · 2022 65% · 2023 38% — 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
48% of VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k 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.
Against its field
VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters 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 VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Vail Valley Foundation · exempt
- Youthpower365 · exempt
- Eagle River Valley Childcare · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: 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 VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,816 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($220,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,591,816 in grants to VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 43 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