2026-02-04T13:48:55-08:00 2024-12-31 264415793 FORTH & ASSOCIATES PC 33 N CHESTNUT ST CORTEZ CO 81321 990 2024-01-01 742503370 CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER CORT 9705651151 25 N MARKET STREET CORTEZ CO 81321 Susan Lisak Executive Director 2026-02-04 true true Charles R Forth Jr P00160003 9705659200 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Holly Ann Tatnall 25 N MARKET STREET CORTEZ CO 81321 241079 false X WWW.CORTEZCULTURALCENTER.ORG X 1988 CO The mission of the Cortez Cultural Center is to provide programs that enrich the lives of our community and its visitors by increasing cultural awareness, promoting the arts, and educating about the area's history, diversity and natural environment. 7 7 10 10 0 224851 136274 27389 28807 2 146 -26927 -20628 225315 144599 0 0 26759 21871 0 11007 83773 114119 110532 135990 114783 8609 330501 352431 9211 22532 321290 329899 The mission of the Cortez Cultural Center is to provide programs that enrich the lives of our community and its visitors by increasing cultural awareness, promoting the arts, and educating about the area's history, diversity and natural environment. false false 40526 9500 Gallery Exhibits and Opening ReceptionsFor the past several years (before, during and since the Pandemic) the Centers gallery exhibits featuring local artists were few and far between. Since July 2023, this has become our major focus with five different exhibits and opening receptions in 2024.We featured a new exhibit every month throughout 2024, with various themes, one-person, group exhibits, and installations.Last year, about 30 artists participated in the gallery exhibits. Age is not a factor and we will work with small children this year (the Historic Cortez Coloring Book Contest Exhibit, in collaboration with the Montezuma Heritage Museum and LOR Foundation, with submissions from all ages), Southwest Open School (SWOS, high-school graduates art exhibit), and local artists of all ages who answer calls and come to us with their ideas.Many of the exhibits are curated with community member artists joining the committees. Often, they are planned around a theme (such as Avian Art during our annual Birding Festival in May, and Recycled Art made from food wrappers during our Everybody Eats event in October). In all exhibits we strive to keep the exhibits in harmony with the context of our community. A large part of our community are ranchers and farmers and our exhibit in April will celebrate them and rural life.Native American artists are always welcome and featured in the Center Gallery as well as in our Gift Shop (which is more like a museum store).All of the opening receptions are free and open to the public and we do not charge the artists submission fees for exhibit applications. If works are for sale in an exhibit, and they sell, the artists pay a modest commission to the Center.The gallery exhibits enhance our relationships with local artists and crafters, involve them in the Centers programming and planning, and provide 20000 20000 Native American DancesOur Native American Dance program is our signature program, which showcases local indigenous dancers, drummers, and singers who share their traditional stories and songs with the community in the Centers outdoor plaza and dancing circle. For over 26 years, we have presented this nightly program throughout the Summer, June - August, where the traditional dances and songs have been passed down through four generations of performers. Audience members are encouraged to participate with the performers in the Circle Dance and engage directly with the dancers after each performance.The Native American Dances are an hour-long performance that happen five nights per week for an 8-12 week period.Over 2,000 audience members of all ages attended 60 performances in 2024.38 Ute and Din singers, dancers, drummers, and storytellers from four generations ranging from 3 to 78 years old, performed with one another and their audiences.The Native American Dance program is free to the audience, but the performers are paid an honorarium for each and every performance through grant funding.Visitors to the area make it a point to attend our Native American Dances and, as the tourism Director for Montezuma County once said, Visitors to our area usually come for Mesa Verde National Park and/or Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Then they go to the Native American Dances at the Cultural Center. Then they come inside the Center and get to meet our Cultural Specialist, get information and answers to their questions, and view our exhibits. 11514 25662 The Annual Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival provides a popular venue for visiting southwestern Colorado during the second weekend in May. Nestled between alpine and mesa forests and scenic desert canyons, the Four Corners intriguingly diverse landscapes, and mild climate, have drawn people to the region for generations. Ancestral Pueblo farmers dwelled in places now known as Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and Canyon of the Ancients. Todays meadows, pastures, cultivated fields, historic orchards, stock ponds and reservoirs establish habitat for a wide-spectrum of migratory and resident birds. Some species, such as Lucys Warbler, are found no place else in Colorado 72040 true true false false false false false false false false true true false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 6 0 true 10 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 7 7 false false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false false false false false X CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER 9705651151 25 N MARKET STREET CORTEZ CO 81321 X Shere Holleman Executive Director 20.00 0.00 32903 0 0 Paul Beckler Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Lynn Dyer Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Debi Berger Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Sherry Owen-Siekmann Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Diane Cherbak Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Holly Ann Tatnall President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Kathy Sipley Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 32903 0 false false false 0 2326 111507 22441 136274 PROGRAM REVENUE 28807 28807 28807 146 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 74302 96480 -22178 -22178 OTHER REVENUE 531120 1550 1550 1550 144599 28807 -20482 0 0 0 0 12632 4211 4211 4210 0 5629 5629 0 911 575 168 168 2699 1441 629 629 20271 15271 5000 1200 1200 9715 9715 0 0 0 601 488 113 3921 1520 2401 8306 3306 4000 1000 12465 8726 3739 0 16930 11851 5079 163 163 0 379 379 573 573 0 6488 4650 1838 5504 3854 1650 Program Expenses 22818 22818 Printing and Publications 2346 2167 179 Licenses 1226 311 915 DUES AND SUBSCRIPTION 840 175 665 373 155 218 135990 72040 52943 11007 107252 70636 46 779 0 0 0 0 0 7329 7329 0 639402 443715 137874 195687 0 78000 78000 0 0 0 330501 352431 5540 195 20000 3671 2337 9211 22532 X 321290 329899 321290 329899 330501 352431 8609 X false false false X 128447 198922 140853 224851 156236 849309 0 0 128447 198922 140853 224851 156236 849309 0 849309 0 0 3200 1250 294 1053 1696 7493 856802 0.99130 0.98030 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 101795 101795 249358 170233 79125 207754 198196 9558 9190 6730 2460 71305 68556 2749 195687 78000 F 78000 PAYROLL TAXES PAYABLE 1545 SALES TAX PAYABLE 792 2337 X Part X : FIN48 Footnote FIN 48 FootnoteThe Organization is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and therefore has not recorded any provision for federal income taxes in the accompanying financial statements. In addition, the Organization has been determined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) not to be a private foundation within the meaning of Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Organization did not have any unrelated business income for the year ended December 31, 2024.The Organizations Form 990 or 990-EZ, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, for the years ending December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 are subject to examination by the IRS, generally for three years after they were filed. Generally accepted accounting principles require tax effects from an uncertain tax position to be recognized in the financial statements only if the position is more likely than not to be sustained if the position were to be challenged by a taxing authority. The assessment of the tax position is based solely on the technical merits of the position, without regard to the likelihood that the tax position may be challenged. If an uncertain tax position meets the more-likely-than not threshold, the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely to be recognized upon ultimate settlement with the taxing authority is recorded.The Organizations primary tax positions relate to its status as a not-for-profit entity exempt from income taxes and classifications of activities related to its exempt purpose. Management has evaluated the tax positions reflected in the Organizations tax filings and does not believe that any material uncertain tax positions exist. Cherbak Loan Board Membe Operations X 20000 20000 false true true 20000 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b FORM 990 IS EMAILED TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND APPROVED AT THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED BOARD MEETING. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 ALL POLICIES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. Statement Note 1 Amended Form 990 for 2024After completing the 2024 Form 990, the tax preparer incorrectly recorded a deposit of $20,000 as a donation when it was a short-term loan to the organization. This amended return removes $20,000 from revenue and records it as a short-term loan. The original donation receipt has been rescinded and the donor did not take the donation since they intented the deposit to be a short-term loan all along.