Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
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About this organization
Mission
The mission of Colorado Dragon Boat is to build bridges of awareness, knowledge, and understanding between the diverse Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities and the general public through cultural education, leadership development, and athletic competition.
About
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival debuted in 2001 at Sloan's Lake Park in Denver, and has been held there ever since. It was the dream of three Denver area Asian community leaders who wanted to showcase the growing and diverse Asian community to the public at large (and to each ethnic community under the "Asian" and "Asian American" umbrella). Dragon boat racing was a unique competitive sport to host here, and to showcase our many local Asian cultures. At the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, the sport has grown from 16 teams in our first year to almost 50 competing in two divisions. The first year, about 16,000 people attended the one-day event and the five food vendors on hand ran out of during the afternoon even though they ran back to their shops during the day! In 2023 we hosted more than 200,000 festival-goers to our two-day event. We are the largest Dragon Boat Festival in the country, drawing far more attendees than even the long-established dragon boat races and festivals in cities such as New York, Boston, Houston, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco! CDBF now features more than 30 food vendors in two Taste of Asia Food Courts, a huge Asian Marketplace of gifts, artisans and organizations, Dragonland interactive children's area, and over 60 performances on three stages that feature traditional Asian to contemporary Asian American culture. You can enjoy Chinese fan dances, watch authentic martial arts demonstrations, rock out at the Band Stage!
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is outlined in the filing as “Annual dragon boat festival, which is a cultural event celebrating colorado's asian pacific american presence and history, featuring dragon boat festivities and other cultural attractions.”.
When discussing its operations, they were defined as: “Annual dragon boat and film festival, which is a cultural event celebrating colorado's asian pacific american presence and history, featuring dragon boat festivities, asian movies and other cultural attractions.”.
- The state where the non-profit operates has been legally reported as CO.
- The filing indicates that the non-profit's address in 2020 is located at 3000 YOUNGFIELD ST STE 350, WHEAT RIDGE, CO, 80215.
- The non-profit has reported 2 employees on their form as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $250,000 and $500,000.
- Revenue is between $250,000 and $500,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$38.
- The organization has 13 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2000.
- The organization pays $115,336 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $635 in fundraising expenses.