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THE ACADEMY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

EIN 74-2378230 COLORADO SPGS, CO

Revenue 2024
$4,198,912
Expenses 2024
$2,464,893

Program services were 89.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2100
Street
720 WALSEN 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

ARDI stewards donated endowments to sustain future American air and space power, enhancing faculty quality and cadet education at the United States Air Force Academy.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ARDI endows excellence in AF Academy cadet education, sustaining future US air and space power.

  • ARDI's primary program service fostered excellence at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) by supporting distinctive academic programs, directed by Academy leadership, that enhance the faculty and cadet experience with quality and activities above and beyond what US Government resources provide. ARDI's weight of effort funded Endowed Professor chairs in selected disciplines, including astronautics, aeronautics, computer and cyber sciences, economics, foreign languages and cultures, political science, philosophy and ethics, and others. In addition, ARDI supported Academy cadet research and other educational activities that provide breadth and depth beyond the baseline Academy experience to motivate, inspire, and better prepare Academy graduates to serve and lead in the Air Force and Space Force.

    Expenses $2,207,728 · Grants $20,433

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.

  • Christopher D Miller

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Dana Montgomery

    COO

    Total calculated
    $176,421
    From this org
    $145,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,921
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,500
    Bonus
    $8,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,232
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,689
    Filer's total
    $176,421

  • Michael Erdle

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $255,985
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $198,000
    Other
    $57,985
    Hours/week
    5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $198,000 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $49,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $8,485 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $255,985 related

  • Terry Erdle

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $60,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $60,000
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 3 related

  • Bob Edmonds

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rick Pyatt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jack Catton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,198,912
    Expenses
    $2,464,893
    Contributions
    $808,568
    Grants paid
    $20,433
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,309,684
    Expenses
    $2,411,302
    Contributions
    $788,889
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    -$1,003,542
    Expenses
    $2,102,200
    Contributions
    $297,196
    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

  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,299,403
    Expenses
    $2,710,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,306,897

  • 2021 · 990-T

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

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,317,720
    Expenses
    $1,912,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,885,190

  • 2020 · 990-T

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

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,789,305
    Expenses
    $1,047,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,456,685

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,962,275
    Expenses
    $1,009,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,710,373

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Declared as related by

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.