Colorado · Nonprofit
Young Voices of Colorado
Young Voices of Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,062 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($81,435). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $697k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $207k
What Young Voices of Colorado does
Mission
Line 1 Young Voices of Colorado offers outstanding music education in vocal technique, music therory, sight reading, choral artistry, and performance style. United through the study and performance of great choral music, the children discover that music is a bridge to understanding the world around them. Training instills the importance of hard work, dedication, commitment, responsibility and integrity. YVC serves children ages 5-18. Weekly rehearsals are enhanced by workshops, fall and winter retreats, performances and touring and serves the greater community through the Sing a Mile High Childrens Choir Festival and performances at three major public concerts in Denver Metro Area. Attendance for these events was 4,201.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
YVC brings over 400 people to Denver for a week in June to participate in the Sing a Mile High International Childrens Choir Festival which is led by renowned guest conductors to perform at the acoustically-advanced Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver. The festival provides resources for Choir conductors and administative staff. Youth-centered fun activities and community building are held during the evenings. In 2023 eight childrens choirs (350 participants) from the United States - New York to California attended the week-long Sing A Mile High Festival. Since 2006 (excluding the two COVID years) there have been over 5,000 participating singers from more than 120 different choirs Sing a Mile High welcomes and serves a diverse population from across the US and abroad. The festival has evolved by adding youth and changing voices and by accepting small choirs which are rebuilding post COVID.- Fourteen commissioned works have been world premiered at the Sing a Mile High Festival
$218,701 spent51% of program spendingMusic concepts are taught through great masterpieces of the Western European Choral tradition, world music, African American Spirituals and the most challenging contemporary pieces. These sacred and secular works, sung in many languages, serve as the basis of our curriculum. Young Voices of Colorado (YVC) performed in three major public concerts in the Denver Metro Area with an attendance of 4,201. YVC hosts three workshops for elementary music teachers as outreach activities in schools in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties reaching hundreds of students and collaborates with SCFD activities. YVC has developed satellite preschool music education programs at area recreational centers and offers free Try-It classes for interested singers and parents. YVC collaborates with community choirs and orchestras in concerts and performs at local events - Western Welcome Week and Holiday Tree Lighting. YVC serves 175 singers in seven choirs from Kindergarten to 12th grade with a diversity rate of approximately 40% (children of color, different abilitities, and gender). YVC provides instruction in 364 classes, rehearsals and camps. YVC awarded tuition scholoarships to 35% of singers. The YVC…
$208,561 spent49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $427,262.
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 2020 to 2021, from $679k to $510k (−25%).
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 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 21% · 2020 40% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 33% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of Young Voices of Colorado’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. 5 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
Cathy Collins
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $50k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Young Voices of Colorado’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
Young Voices of Colorado leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Young Voices of Colorado.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 98% · 2021 74% · 2022 66% · 2023 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of Young Voices of Colorado'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k 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
Young Voices of Colorado runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Young Voices of Colorado
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
26%
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 Young Voices of Colorado: 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 Young Voices of Colorado?
- Young Voices of Colorado (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,062 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($81,435). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Young Voices of Colorado have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $150,062 in grants to Young Voices of Colorado, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Young Voices of Colorado?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,435 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Young Voices of Colorado 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 5 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