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ELEPHANT CIRCLE

EIN 47-1648218 PALISADE, CO

Revenue 2024
$6,612,739
Expenses 2024
$5,692,736

Program services were 79.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1200
Street
3548 G 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 · 2024

Mission

INSPIRED BY ELEPHANTS WHO GIVE BIRTH WITHIN A CIRCLE OF SUPPORT, WE ENVISION A WORLD WHERE ALL PEOPLE HAVE A CIRCLE OF SUPPORT FOR THEIR ENTIRE PERINATAL PERIOD. BIRTH JUSTICE OCCURS WHEN EVERYONE IS EQUALLY CAPABLE OF SELF-DETERMINATION DURING THE PERINATAL PERIOD, WHEN THEIR SELF- DETERMINATION IS SUPPORTED AND AMPLIFIED.

  • PRIOR TO INCORPORATION IN 2018, ELEPHANT CIRCLE WAS FISCALLY SPONSORED FOR NINE YEARS. WE SEE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP AS A KEY PART OF MOVEMENT BUILDING AND SUSTAINABILITY, AND OUR MISSION. WE CALL THIS PART OF OUR WORK THE BIRTH JUSTICE SUSTAINABILITY HUB. WE RECOGNIZE THAT BUSINESSES OF ALL KINDS, INCLUDING NON-PROFITS OFTEN REPLICATE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES THAT UPHOLD POWER IMBALANCES. FISCAL SPONSORSHIP IS PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO THESE PATTERNS SINCE IT INVOLVES BUSINESS FORMATION WITH THE ADDED COMPLEXITY OF TAX LAW. OUR GOAL IS TO DO FISCAL SPONSORSHIP IN A WAY THAT LESSENS THE BARRIERS TO ENTRY FOR INNOVATIVE PROJECTS, INTERRUPTS UNFAIR SYSTEMS, AND DEMONSTRATES ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF MANAGING CHANGE, RISK, AND POWER. WE BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED FROM OR NEGLECTED BY THE STATUS QUO, AND WHO ARE DIRECTLY IMPACTED AND MOST PROXIMATE TO THE PROBLEM, HOLD SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS, AND NEED LEGAL, TAX AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS TO WORK FOR THEM. WE LEVERAGE OUR LEGAL, TAX AND ACCOUNTING INFRASTRUCTURE, COMBINE IT WITH OUR BIRTH JUSTICE EXPERTISE, AND COLLABORATE WITH MISSION-ALIGNED PEOPLE TO CREATE A HUB THAT CAN SUSTAIN OUR COLLECTIVE WORK.

    Expenses $1,962,323 · Grants $592 · Revenue $8,542

  • EC'S MOVEMENT BUILDING WORK STRIVES TO INCREASE INNOVATION IN THE FIELD BY SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EMERGING PROJECTS AND IDEAS, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT ARE COMMUNITY BASED AND LED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE DIRECTLY-IMPACTED.

    Expenses $1,811,230 · Revenue $1,517,939

  • EC'S COMMUNITY POWER WORK IS ABOUT BUILDING POWER AMONG THOSE MOST MARGINALIZED DURING THE PERINATAL PERIOD, MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AT AND INCREASING THEIR CAPACITY FOR ATTUNED SUPPORT AND PROTECTIVE DEFENSE. THIS WORK INCLUDES RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, BIRTHWORKER TRAININGS AND DIRECT ASSISTANCE

    Expenses $577,137 · Revenue $47,684

  • EC'S PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ADVOCACY WORK ADDRESSES LEGAL AND POLICY ISSUES THAT CAN PROMOTE HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN THE PERINATAL PERIOD IMPACTING MULTIPLE GENERATIONS AT ONCE. THIS WORK INCLUDES INDIVIDUAL LEGAL SERVICES AND CONSULTATION, AND STATE-BASED NATIONAL POLICY WORK, COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY.

    Expenses $148,862 · Revenue $260,136

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • INDRA LUSERO

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $98,201
    From this org
    $98,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • LYZ RILEY SANDERS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMANDA COSLOR

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANGELA MORENO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LORENA GARCIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEMETRA SERIKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,612,739
    Expenses
    $5,692,736
    Contributions
    $4,759,308
    Grants paid
    $592
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,318,490
    Expenses
    $3,457,070
    Contributions
    $2,478,348
    Grants paid
    $215,461
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,293,991
    Expenses
    $1,054,420
    Contributions
    $1,981,413
    Grants paid
    $174,385

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
    $752,079
    Expenses
    $569,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $511,888

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $325,869
    Expenses
    $126,480
    Assets (EOY)
    $323,744

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 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Indra Lusero
Mailing address
3218 Vallejo StreetDenver CO 80211
Website
elephantcircle.org

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

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Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2017, reinstated 15 January 2018.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.