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UNITED STATES SPACE FOUNDATION

EIN 31-1653556 COLORADO SPGS, CO

Revenue 2024
$25,683,246
Expenses 2024
$24,300,325

Program services were 71.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
4425 ARROWSWEST DR

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.

  • DR MICHELLE PARKER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANK CULBERTSON JR

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gen JOHN HYTEN

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER PRINGLE

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $508,665
    From this org
    $494,617
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,048
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $382,117
    Bonus
    $112,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,158
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,890
    Filer's total
    $508,665

  • JEFFREY GRANT

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL ENGOLA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER TRAINER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS FEENEY III

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARISSA CHRISTENSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER BROWNE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR KAM GHAFFARIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR ROBERT FLEMING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD ZOISS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HELENE HUBY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HOYT DAVIDSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF ASHBY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAUREN SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDSAY PAPSIDERO

    NEXT GEN MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PASCALE EHRENFREUND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT LIGHTFOOT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAMUEL GREAVES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SOICHI NOGUCHI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TANYA PEMBERTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WOLFGANG DUERR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HOLLY ROBERTS

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $431,948
    From this org
    $412,076
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,872
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $331,680
    Bonus
    $80,396
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,856
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,016
    Filer's total
    $431,948

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
    $25,683,246
    Expenses
    $24,300,325
    Contributions
    $7,415,695
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $28,337,413
    Expenses
    $23,502,225
    Contributions
    $9,297,023
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $26,182,429
    Expenses
    $20,543,396
    Contributions
    $7,042,442
    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.

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 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.