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CHERRY CREEK ARTS FESTIVAL

EIN 74-2546811 DENVER, CO

Revenue 2024
$4,392,345
Expenses 2024
$3,152,589

Program services were 79.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A400
Classification
1000
Street
2 STEELE STREET APT B-100

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CHERRY ARTS 501c3 non-profit mission is to provide access to art experiences and support arts education in Colorado

  • CHERRY CREEK ARTS FESTIVAL-PROVIDES FREE OF CHARGE, AN INTERACTIVE VISUAL ARTS EXPERIENCE FOR APPROXIMATELY 48,900 ATTENDEES. THE FOCUS OF ACTIVITIES IS A JURIED EXHIBITION WITH ARTISTS FROM VARIOUS STATES COUNTRIES SHOWING THEIR WORKS OF ART

    Expenses $2,383,215

  • EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO BE MOBILE, BRINGING ART PROGRAMS DIRECTLY INTO SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY CENTERS. EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES ARE DESIGNED TO NURTURE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF ARTS SUPPORTERS AND EXPOSE YOUNG MINDS TO THE MANY SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS OF EXPERIENCING AND CREATING ART.

    Expenses $125,021

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • TARA BRICKELL

    EXEC DIRECTOR/CEO

    Total calculated
    $187,579
    From this org
    $156,510
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,069
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,010
    Bonus
    $19,500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,069
    Filer's total
    $187,579

  • MATTHEW KEENEY

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFF PFEIFER

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ESTHER LEE LEACH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RACHEL M MCGUIRE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELAINE L BOLTZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RITA M CONNERLY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIM CORRIGAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMY DICKERSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN-CLAUDE FUTRELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELIZABETH HAMILTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DENNIS R RYERSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIFFANY SUMMERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRACE WEIHS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEPHANIE WOOD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREA ZEDIKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,392,345
    Expenses
    $3,152,589
    Contributions
    $2,700,347
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,173,190
    Expenses
    $2,569,716
    Contributions
    $1,098,778
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,116,083
    Expenses
    $2,463,993
    Contributions
    $1,127,616
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,413,779
    Expenses
    $2,395,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,375,483

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,539,850
    Expenses
    $1,760,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,617,133

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $399,898
    Expenses
    $947,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,660,317

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,817,887
    Expenses
    $2,690,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,849,798

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,005,410
    Expenses
    $2,601,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,636,494

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,413,709
    Expenses
    $2,530,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,155,078

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,773,511
    Expenses
    $2,504,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,084,476

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,246,103
    Expenses
    $2,330,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,744,596

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,011,021
    Expenses
    $2,220,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,857,084

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,162,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,028,395

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.