- Revenue 2024
- $1,650,096
- Expenses 2024
- $3,344,103
Program services were 82.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A40
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 28 S BEAVER ST
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
To support the realization and stewardship of the Roden Crater project, including the protection and conservation of surrounding lands, dark skies, and viewshed, as well as own a significant portion of James Turrells art work and serve as a repository to hold, preserve, and manage all of his archives.
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To Support the realization and stewardship of the Roden Crater project, including the protection and conservation of surrounding lands, dark skies, and viewshed. Roden Crater, which sits within the boundaries of the Painted Desert approximately 20 miles northeast of Flagstaff AZ, is a monumental land art project by artist James Turrell. The crater, which is a cinder cone type of volcanic cone from an extinct volcano, has been transformed into a massive naked-eye observatory for viewing and experiencing skylight, solar, and celestial phenomena. The project is still in progress with hopes to open for public viewing tentatively set for 2030.
Expenses $2,746,876 · Grants $400
As filed on the 2024 return.
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.
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Michael Govan
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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James A Turrell
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20 + 20 related
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Kyung-Lim Lee Turrell
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20 + 20 related
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Richard Andrews
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Joe Thompson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,650,096
- Expenses
- $3,344,103
- Contributions
- $173,874
- Grants paid
- $400
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,374,240
- Expenses
- $12,593,365
- Contributions
- $428,769
- Grants paid
- $10,693,856
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2022
- Revenue
- $11,410,565
- Expenses
- $1,048,616
- Contributions
- $10,240,424
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $25,109,697
- Expenses
- $1,049,899
- Assets (EOY)
- $108,531,237
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $27,051,414
- Expenses
- $626,135
- Assets (EOY)
- $84,539,675
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $26,097,015
- Expenses
- $486,569
- Assets (EOY)
- $58,656,861
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $28,633,221
- Expenses
- $247,800
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,802,020
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,477,637
- Expenses
- $162,140
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,819,848
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $175,823
- Expenses
- $668,688
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,438,192
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,078,340
- Expenses
- $94,118
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,931,057
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $25,599
- Expenses
- $60,894
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,946,835
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $235,897
- Expenses
- $19,324
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,982,130
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
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2023 Roden Crater Projects
Grants received
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$65,841
2022 UNRESTRICTED
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$51,952
2023 UNRESTRICTED
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$33,792
2024 UNRESTRICTED
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 general support
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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
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501C3 · ART PRESERVATION · AZ · controlled entity
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.
Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return
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S Corp · Fine Arts/Ranching · AZ
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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.