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TELLURIDE ACADEMY

EIN 84-0945670 TELLURIDE, CO

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Revenue 2025
$2,226,184
Expenses 2025
$1,863,594

Program services were 84.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2255

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 · 2025

Mission

CONNECTING YOUTH TO NATURE THROUGH OUTDOOR ADVENTURE, CREATIVITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP.

Activities or mission (Part I)

INSPIRE CHILDREN AND TEENS THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION THAT PROMOTES PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, CREATIVE LEARNING, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, RESPONSIBILITY TO OTHERS, AND POSITIVE LIFE CHOICES.

  • TELLURIDE ACADEMY PROGRAMMING FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON OUTDOOR EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION (E.G. HIKING, ROCK CLIMBING, BACKPACKING, MOUNTAIN BIKING, KAYAKING, AND WILDERNESS EXPLORATION), PROGRAM OFFERINGS ALSO INCLUDE PERFORMING ARTS AND ARTISTIC ADVENTURES, SCIENCE EXPLORATION, AND GLOBAL AWARENESS AND TRAVEL. TELLURIDE ACADEMY PROVIDES TUITION ASSISTANCE AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS TO LOCAL AND REGIONAL STUDENTS TO HELP THEM OVERCOME FINANCIAL, CULTURAL, AND LOGISTICAL BARRIERS TO ATTENDING CAMP. TELLURIDE ACADEMY ALSO PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS WITH VARIOUS COGNITIVE OR PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS.

    Expenses $1,571,696 · Grants $284,930 · Revenue $1,560,337

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nathan Frerichs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ericka De Maquera

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zoe Gillette

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Boucher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jill Masters

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Shoff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Trisha Cowart Westfall

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Cabrera

    VICE PRESIDENT/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Austin Collins

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jason Merritt

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $144,452
    From this org
    $124,024
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,428
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,226,184
    Expenses
    $1,863,594
    Contributions
    $403,916
    Grants paid
    $284,930
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,122,550
    Expenses
    $1,990,932
    Contributions
    $501,206
    Grants paid
    $253,720
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,309,400
    Expenses
    $1,967,974
    Contributions
    $569,202
    Grants paid
    $302,791
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,934,599
    Expenses
    $1,973,059
    Contributions
    $596,273
    Grants paid
    $257,155

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
    $1,963,825
    Expenses
    $1,433,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,137,089

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $894,218
    Expenses
    $710,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,868,756

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,647,968
    Expenses
    $1,442,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,549,170

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,437,119
    Expenses
    $1,460,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,365,753

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,389,334
    Expenses
    $1,306,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,280,486

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.