ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B200

Classification

1000

Street

6720 VIA AUSTI PKWY STE 260

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

• THE ALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL IN BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO, A $67 MILLION FACILITY BUILT BY THE ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION IN 1970, PROVIDES CHALLENGING AND RELEVANT LEARNING TO 518 STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 TO BECOME CREATIVE, RESILIENT PROBLEM-SOLVERS WHO BRING THEIR BEST TO THE WORLD.DURING THE 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR, THE SCHOOL PROVIDED $2,004,056 IN FINANCIAL AID TO 83 DESERVING AND TALENTED STUDENTS WHO OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AFFORD A DAWSON EDUCATION. IN JUNE 2024, THE SCHOOL AWARDED DIPLOMAS TO 58 GRADUATES, WHO WERE ACCEPTED TO SUCH COLLEGES AS CORNELL UNIVERSITY, LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, AND WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY AND WERE OFFERED $7.68 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS. IN ADDITION, THE SCHOOL OWNED AND OPERATED A SUMMER CAMP, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, IN 2023-2024 THAT OFFERED INSTRUCTION IN SPORTS, ARTS, TECHNOLOGY, SPECIALTY CAMPS AND MORE FOR 2,042 BOYS AND GIRLS.

  Expenses $16,742,421 · Grants $2,004,056 · Revenue $18,362,962

• THE ALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL AT RAINBOW MOUNTAIN IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, A $46 MILLION FACILITY BUILT BY THE ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION IN 2000, PROVIDES A NURTURING LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR 582 STUDENTS IN PRE-SCHOOL THROUGH GRADE EIGHT THAT CHALLENGES STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE IN MIND, BODY, AND CHARACTER. DURING THE 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR, THE SCHOOL PROVIDED $1,523,805 IN FINANCIAL AID TO 99 DESERVING AND TALENTED STUDENTS WHO OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AFFORD A DAWSON EDUCATION. IN JUNE 2024, THE SCHOOL GRADUATED 55 EIGHTH GRADERS, WHO HAVE GONE ON TO ATTEND LOCAL PUBLIC AND INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS, SUCH BOARDING SCHOOLS AS THE WEBB SCHOOLS AND THE THACHER SCHOOL.

  Expenses $13,916,865 · Grants $1,523,804 · Revenue $16,681,266

• THE ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION SUPPORTS DAWSON SUMMER INITIATIVE (COLORADO) AND DAWSON COLLEGE BOUND (NEVADA). EACH CONSISTS OF A SUMMER AND A YEAR-ROUND MENTORING PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM PROVIDES ENRICHING, INTELLECTUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGH-ACHIEVING PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOLS STUDENTS AT NO COST TO THE PARTICIPANTS.DAWSON SUMMER INITIATIVE IS AN ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOR HIGH-ACHIEVING PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS CURRENTLY IN GRADES 6 AND 7. 154 STUDENTS FROM OVER 35 PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BOULDER COUNTY AND SURROUNDING AREAS ATTENDED 2-5 WEEKS OF INTENSIVELY COLLABORATIVE, HANDS-ON STUDY OF A PARTICULAR THEME. THE PROGRAM IS HELD AT THE COLORADO CAMPUS AND PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR INQUISITIVE STUDENTS TO MEET OTHER STUDENTS FROM MANY DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, DELVE INTO ONE OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT TOPICS IN THE NEWS, AND IDENTIFY REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS.

  Expenses $371,001

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2023

  Revenue

  $49,457,198

  Expenses

  $43,837,727

  Contributions

  $995,864

  Grants paid

  $3,527,860

• 2022

  Revenue

  $42,062,364

  Expenses

  $42,275,370

  Contributions

  $2,039,773

  Grants paid

  $3,391,467

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $54,596,159

  Expenses

  $39,871,789

  Assets (EOY)

  $305,237,157

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $50,508,481

  Expenses

  $37,609,854

  Assets (EOY)

  $318,582,392

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $37,005,708

  Expenses

  $35,145,462

  Assets (EOY)

  $281,692,772

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $37,147,492

  Expenses

  $36,939,202

  Assets (EOY)

  $289,181,088

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $45,657,687

  Expenses

  $34,488,762

  Assets (EOY)

  $284,634,019

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $41,791,807

  Expenses

  $39,344,096

  Assets (EOY)

  $271,436,377

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $63,962,724

  Expenses

  $34,737,867

  Assets (EOY)

  $257,192,734

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

• ACADEMIC COACHING SERVICES ACS FOUNDATION INC

  $300,000

  2025 · CONTRIBUTION

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $120,000

  2023 · EDUCATIONAL

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $94,100

  2022 · EDUCATION

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $83,500

  2024 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $82,600

  2024 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $75,100

  2023 · EDUCATION

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $55,829

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $53,544

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $51,950

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $38,900

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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