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MERIT ACADEMY

EIN 85-2365942 WOODLAND PARK, CO

Revenue 2023
$5,376,591
Expenses 2023
$6,820,950

Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B20
Classification
1200
Street
500 E KELLY RD

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 · 2023

Mission

Merit Academy will cultivate the minds and nurture the hearts of K-12 youth in the Ute Pass/Woodland Park region with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue, employing honored foundations of classical education and Core Knowledge.

  • Merit Academy will cultivate the minds and nurture the hearts of K-12 youth in the Ute Pass/Woodland Park region with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue, employing honored foundations of classical education and Core Knowledge.

    Expenses $6,092,780 · Revenue $4,843,386

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nicole Waggoner

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jason Ledlie

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Sekowski

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Dill

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katie Illingworth

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gwynne Pekron

    Headmaster

    Total calculated
    $112,484
    From this org
    $79,547
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,937
    Hours/week
    60

  • Leanna Tally

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $63,400
    From this org
    $46,733
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,667
    Hours/week
    60

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,376,591
    Expenses
    $6,820,950
    Contributions
    $537,753
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,399,236
    Expenses
    $5,781,676
    Contributions
    $939,968
    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
    $2,734,807
    Expenses
    $2,567,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,211,326

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021
Principal officer
Nicole Wagonner
Mailing address
PO Box 363Woodland Park CO 80866
Website
https://www.merit.academy/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.