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ASPEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC

EIN 56-2464910 FRESNO, CA

Revenue 2024
$18,592,829
Expenses 2024
$19,916,885

Program services were 90.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
1000
Street
4221 N HUGHES AVE

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

ASPEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS FORMED TO SERVE SOME OF CENTRAL FRESNO'S MOST "AT-RISK" CHILDREN. SINCE 2004, THE ORGANIZATION HAS SERVED ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS, SPECIFICALLY TARGETING FOSTER AND HOMELESS YOUTH AND THOSE LIVING IN SEVERE POVERTY. THE MISSION IS TRANSFORM THE COMMUNITY BY DEVELOPING EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EDUCATE STUDENTS TO ATTAIN NECESSARY LITERACY AND TO LIVE SUCCESSFULLY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

  • ASPEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS THREE CHARTER SCHOOLS: ASPEN VALLEY PREP ACADEMY, ASPEN MEADOW PUBLIC SCHOOL, AND ASPEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL. FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025, ASPEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS SERVED APPROXIMATELY 867 STUDENTS ACROSS 175 TRADITIONAL CALENDAR DAYS IN GRADES TK-12.

    Expenses $17,974,353 · Revenue $6,459

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Shelly Lether

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $176,034
    From this org
    $149,034
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,000
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,034
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,744
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,256
    Filer's total
    $176,034
  • Lisa Taylor

    SITE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $147,958
    From this org
    $111,977
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,981
    Hours/week
    40
  • Sarah Crantz

    CHIEF STUDENT SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $141,135
    From this org
    $118,501
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,634
    Hours/week
    40
  • Riley Fox

    SITE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $119,479
    From this org
    $100,318
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,161
    Hours/week
    40
  • Nicole Rivera

    SITE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,816
    From this org
    $111,441
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,375
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related
  • Michael Lee

    IT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $127,483
    From this org
    $115,210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,273
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related
  • John Grice

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carlos Huerta

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rene Dayton

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mark Snee

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alicia Varela

    DIRECTOR

    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
    $18,592,829
    Expenses
    $19,916,885
    Contributions
    $18,511,510
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $18,220,113
    Expenses
    $17,444,626
    Contributions
    $18,176,433
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,454,437
    Expenses
    $14,446,712
    Contributions
    $15,447,588
    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
    $12,741,116
    Expenses
    $12,450,402
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,722,534
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,324,695
    Expenses
    $9,302,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,968,170
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,008,146
    Expenses
    $8,456,978
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,130,322
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,618,103
    Expenses
    $7,266,182
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,323,731
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,498,860
    Expenses
    $6,273,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,168,466
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,277,849
    Expenses
    $3,952,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,290,408
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,236,678
    Expenses
    $3,174,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $676,130
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,724,417
    Expenses
    $2,665,001
    Assets (EOY)
    $648,389
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,628,416
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,122,274

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.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.