ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C600

Classification

1200

Street

100 PUPPY SMITH 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

• ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (ACES) IS A NONPROFIT ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION.ACES INSPIRES A LIFE-LONG COMMITMENT TO THE EARTH BY PROVIDING INNOVATIVE AND IMMERSIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR ALL AGES. WE HAVE THREE LOCATIONS: HALLAM LAKE, ROCK BOTTOM RANCH, AND CATTO CENTER AT TOKLAT. OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOCUS ON ECOLOGICAL LITERACY, REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE, FOREST AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH, LAND RESTORATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CIVIC LEADERSHIP AND THEY REACH OVER 140,000 INDIVIDUALS EVERY YEAR. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 60 PLUS PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS, ACES TEACHES ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE DAILY IN SCHOOLS FROM ASPEN TO RIFLE COLORADO, PROVIDES DAY CAMPS FOR CHILDREN IN THE SUMMER AND OVER SELECT HOLIDAYS, GUIDES ADULTS AND YOUTHS OF ALL AGES ON OUTDOOR NATURE CLASSES, GUIDED HIKES AND FIELD PROGRAMS. WE ALSO ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY BY HOSTING PUBLIC LECTURES AND EVENTS ABOUT CUTTING EDGE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. THROUGH COLLABORATIONS WITH LAND TRUSTS, PUBLIC AGENCIES AND OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS; ACES CARRIES OUT ITS MISSION "EDUCATING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY."

  Expenses $3,687,710 · Revenue $1,214,323

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.

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

  $6,250,553

  Expenses

  $5,018,774

  Contributions

  $4,848,390

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,628,622

  Expenses

  $3,964,246

  Contributions

  $4,120,766

  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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,526,369

  Expenses

  $3,211,488

  Assets (EOY)

  $34,082,022

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,676,243

  Expenses

  $2,880,705

  Assets (EOY)

  $32,605,715

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,605,639

  Expenses

  $2,548,123

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,539,165

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,045,765

  Expenses

  $2,958,565

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,495,195

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,542,366

  Expenses

  $2,598,618

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,318,186

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,673,993

  Expenses

  $2,368,811

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,384,706

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,451,911

  Expenses

  $2,373,840

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,245,287

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,865,822

  Expenses

  $2,501,491

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,796,640

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,036,260

  Expenses

  $2,261,466

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,247,209

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,118,506

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,394,713

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $577,750

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ENDOWMENT FUND INC

  $546,721

  2023 · TO SUPPORT ANNUAL OPERATIONS

• ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ENDOWMENT FUND INC

  $500,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT ANNUAL OPERATIONS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $454,690

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $314,447

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $141,700

  2022 · THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS GENERAL SUPPORT.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $102,750

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $65,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $64,950

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $55,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT THE EVENING ON THE LAKE

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

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.

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