THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C60Z

Classification

2800

Street

300 OLD LARAMIE TRL

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

• CORE PROGRAMS: THORNE ACCOMPLISHES ITS MISSION THROUGH NATURE-BASED EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT PRIMARILY SERVE BOULDER COUNTY YOUTH AND FAMILIES. PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO BUILD EARTH STEWARDSHIP BY CONNECTING CHILDREN AND YOUTH TO NATURE THROUGH JOYFUL, HANDS-ON, PLACE-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION EXPERIENCES. SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: THORNE PROVIDES FIELD TRIPS, FIELD DAYS, IN-SCHOOL LESSONS, AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT ACADEMIC LEARNING AND BUILD NATURE CONNECTION THROUGH DIRECT EXPERIENCE WITH LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS. FY25 SCFD ATTENDANCE SUPPORT DOCUMENTED QUALIFYING TOUR GROUP/PROGRAM ATTENDANCE FOR FIELD TRIP, FIELD DAY, IN-SCHOOL, AND AFTER- SCHOOL ACTIVITIES. ------ SEE SCHEDULE O FOR MORE DETAILS ------

  Expenses $2,580,829 · Grants $149,771 · Revenue $1,377,584

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

  $2,681,033

  Expenses

  $3,460,225

  Contributions

  $1,280,142

  Grants paid

  $149,771

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,270,743

  Expenses

  $3,574,915

  Contributions

  $1,892,066

  Grants paid

  $126,948

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,946,732

  Expenses

  $2,724,855

  Contributions

  $3,640,155

  Grants paid

  $161,647

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

  $3,202,535

  Expenses

  $2,234,422

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,978,223

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,022,609

  Expenses

  $1,032,182

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,207,075

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,802,339

  Expenses

  $2,035,638

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,067,500

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,394,982

  Expenses

  $1,969,561

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,849,455

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,771,675

  Expenses

  $1,650,630

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,258,252

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,814,540

  Expenses

  $1,423,688

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,086,400

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,638,247

  Expenses

  $1,051,442

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,567,589

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $908,052

  Expenses

  $787,671

  Assets (EOY)

  $980,771

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $956,296

  Expenses

  $708,139

  Assets (EOY)

  $865,738

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $756,703

  Expenses

  $647,006

  Assets (EOY)

  $620,266

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

• COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE

  $57,612

  2022 · NATURE'S KIDS

• CAL-WOOD EDUCATION CENTER

  $56,490

  2023 · NATURE'S KIDS

• CAL-WOOD EDUCATION CENTER

  $43,860

  2024 · NATURE'S KIDS

• CAL-WOOD EDUCATION CENTER

  $37,750

  2022 · NATURE'S KIDS

• COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE

  $32,200

  2024 · NATURE'S KIDS

• WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS

  $32,195

  2022 · NATURE'S KIDS

• COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE

  $28,200

  2023 · NATURE'S KIDS

• YMCA OF BOULDER VALLEY

  $21,500

  2024 · NATURE'S KIDS

• YMCA OF BOULDER VALLEY

  $15,000

  2023 · NATURE'S KIDS

• WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS

  $13,125

  2024 · NATURE'S KIDS

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $296,073

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $209,740

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION

  $131,114

  2023 · YOUTH OUTDOOR PART.

• THE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2022 · YOUTH OUTDOOR PART.

• THE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2025

• DENVER FOUNDATION

  $60,210

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $45,135

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $45,000

  2023 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC

  $40,000

  2023 · TO BUILD CAPACITY FOR LOCAL STRATEGIES THAT CONNECT CHILDREN TO NATURE MORE EQUITABLY.

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $35,000

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

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

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