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BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS

EIN 74-2395097 VAIL, CO

Revenue 2024
$1,810,170
Expenses 2024
$1,947,402

Program services were 69.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C410
Classification
1200
Street
522 S FRONTAGE RD E

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

TO PROTECT THE ALPINE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH EDUCATION, CONSERVATION AND LIVING PLANT COLLECTIONS.

  • CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS AND PUBLIC EDUCATION RELATING TO HIGH ALTITUDE PLANTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THE GARDENS HOST 100,000 VISITORS EACH YEAR WITHOUT CHARGING AN ADMISSION FEE. THE GARDENS IS A NATIONALLY RENOWNED BOTANIC GARDEN WITH SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS AND AWARDS FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN PLANT COLLECTION CONSORTIUM AND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION. THE GARDENS COAUTHORED THE FIRST ALPINE PLANT CONSERVATION PLAN CREATED IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERNS. 1,200 CHILDREN PARTICIPATE IN THE GARDENS ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAMS. THE GARDENS ALSO PROVIDE RARE PLANT MONITORING EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH SERVICES TO STATE AND FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES.

    Expenses $1,349,576

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.

  • Nicola Ripley

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $197,204
    From this org
    $176,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,104
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $176,100
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,104
    Filer's total
    $197,204

  • Melissa Ebone

    VP of Development

    Total calculated
    $120,866
    From this org
    $109,435
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,431
    Hours/week
    40

  • Susan Frampton

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathy Borgen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Samantha Thompson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeanne Fritch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Holly Elliot

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dave Chapin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Beth Ottley

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pedro Campos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jenny Maritz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • June Rossetti

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jim Wear

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Linda Hill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jill Posnick

    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. 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
    $1,810,170
    Expenses
    $1,947,402
    Contributions
    $1,116,782
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,050,702
    Expenses
    $1,474,121
    Contributions
    $999,384
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,593,901
    Expenses
    $1,771,341
    Contributions
    $1,107,690
    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
    $2,228,984
    Expenses
    $1,671,103
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,505,693

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,950,418
    Expenses
    $1,526,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,848,965

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,870,570
    Expenses
    $1,284,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,179,990

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,292,137
    Expenses
    $1,268,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,478,213

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,484,320
    Expenses
    $1,181,911
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,474,626

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $921,105
    Expenses
    $1,003,103
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,875,260

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,130,810
    Expenses
    $912,290
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,913,354

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,268,809
    Expenses
    $819,727
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,295,044

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,276,037
    Expenses
    $669,983
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,227,369

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $568,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,619,921

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

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