The Denver Art Museum Foundation is overwhelmingly dedicated to supporting the Denver Art Museum through large, targeted gifts that fund art acquisitions, exhibitions, and institutional priorities. Their giving is singularly focused on a single cultural institution in Denver, indicating a mission-driven commitment to sustaining and enhancing the museum's programs and collections.
Highly concentrated funding: all grants go to one core grantee (Denver Art Museum), consisting of very large gifts and multiple disbursements rather than dispersed, one-off grants.
The Denver Art Museum Foundation’s recent grants are almost entirely built around a single institution: the Denver Art Museum. In the latest grants on file, the foundation made six awards to the museum across 2023, 2024, and 2025, with support labeled both for general support and for gifts for art and exhibitions. That pattern points to a funder that is not spreading resources broadly across the arts field, but sustaining one museum through recurring, large-scale commitments. The museum’s role is clear in the grant descriptions themselves, which tie the foundation’s giving to art acquisition, exhibition work, and institutional support. The foundation’s priorities also appear in the way those grants are framed. Some awards are directed to general support, while others are designated for gifts for art and exhibitions, showing a mix of unrestricted institutional backing and project-specific funding. The Denver Art Museum Foundation’s grantmaking is therefore closely aligned with the museum’s ongoing operations and public-facing programming, rather than episodic or experimental philanthropy.
One core area is exhibition support. The foundation gave $4,101,170 to Denver Art Museum for “GIFTS FOR ART, EXHIB” in 2025, and another $3,866,287 to the same institution in 2024 with the same designation. That repeated phrasing suggests support tied to art presentation and exhibition activity. A second area is general institutional backing. In 2024, the foundation awarded $4,042,597 to Denver Art Museum for general support, followed by $3,939,774 in 2025 for the same purpose. Those grants show a pattern of underwriting the museum’s broader needs, not only specific projects. The foundation also supports collection-related work. The 2023 grant of $3,438,498 to Denver Art Museum for gifts for art and exhibitions fits alongside the other awards and reflects funding for the museum’s art and exhibition priorities.
Typical grant size sits in a narrow band: p25 is $3,884,659, median is $3,952,530, and p75 is $4,023,269. That clustering shows consistently large awards rather than a wide spread of small and large grants. The recent record also shows repeated support to the same recipient across 2023, 2024, and 2025, indicating ongoing institutional funding rather than one-off giving. The foundation is a non-individual funder and does not make program-related investments. Its grantmaking appears to be general operating support and project/program support for the museum.
$9.3M
$228.9M
$31.7M
$9.7M
Most grants fall between $3.9M and $4M, with a median of $4M.
25th Percentile
$3.9M
Median
$4M
75th Percentile
$4M
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Notable grantees: Denver Art Museum
Grantmaking is fully local and entirely in Colorado: 100% of grants went to recipients in the foundation’s HQ state. All recent grants in the file went to Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO, so the geographic footprint is concentrated in one city. The top state by grant count is CO, and there are no non-U.S. recipient countries in the recent grant record.
It funds the Denver Art Museum almost exclusively. The recent grants list shows six awards, all to Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO, across 2023 through 2025. The purposes include general support and gifts for art and exhibitions, which ties the foundation closely to the museum’s core operations and collections work.
The grant sizes are consistently large and tightly grouped. The 25th percentile is $3,884,659, the median is $3,952,530, and the 75th percentile is $4,023,269. Recent grants also cluster around roughly $3.4 million to $4.1 million.
Yes. Denver Art Museum appears repeatedly in the recent grants list, with awards in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The repeated funding includes both general support and gifts for art and exhibitions, showing an ongoing relationship rather than a single grant cycle.
Its grantmaking is local and entirely in Colorado. The recipient country distribution is 100% US, and every recent grant listed went to Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO. The top state by grant count is CO.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $4,739,530 | 2026 | GIFTS FOR ART, EXHIB |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $4,517,027 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $4,101,170 | 2025 | GIFTS FOR ART, EXHIB |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $3,939,774 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $4,042,597 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $3,866,287 | 2024 | GIFTS FOR ART, EXHIB |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $3,965,285 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | DENVER, CO | $3,438,498 | 2023 | GIFTS FOR ART, EXHIB |
GIFTS FOR ART, EXHIB
DENVER ART MUSEUM
$3,965,285GENERAL SUPPORT
DENVER ART MUSEUM
$3,438,498GIFTS FOR ART, EXHIB