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THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC

EIN 84-0399006 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$443,841,184
Expenses 2024
$234,264,178

Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V200
Classification
2000
Street
2300 N ST NW STE 700

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).

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.

  • DANIEL R PORTERFIELD

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $911,570
    From this org
    $802,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $108,695
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $797,994
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $4,881
    Deferred
    $52,213
    Nontaxable benefits
    $56,482
    Filer's total
    $911,570

  • MARGOT L PRITZKER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • KATHARINE ALBRIGHT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFFREY S ARONIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX M AZAR II

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DONNA BARKSDALE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MERCEDES BASS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIGUEL MIKE BEZOS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAWRENCE D BOBO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETH BROOKE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM D BUDINGER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM BYNUM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TROY CARTER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CESAR R CONDE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHYLLIS COULTER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE COURIC

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LESTER CROWN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAULA CROWN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA CUNNINGHAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENNETH L DAVIS MD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • L JOHN DOERR

    TRUSTEE - UNTIL 04/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THELMA DUGGIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ARNE DUNCAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL D EISNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • L BROOKS ENTWISTLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $443,841,184
    Expenses
    $234,264,178
    Contributions
    $381,262,788
    Grants paid
    $36,475,484
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $232,109,335
    Expenses
    $225,738,675
    Contributions
    $177,730,506
    Grants paid
    $34,469,867
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $189,761,926
    Expenses
    $192,935,305
    Contributions
    $141,560,565
    Grants paid
    $25,386,898

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

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.