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SOAR CONSORTIUM INC

EIN 86-0944542 TUCSON, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$3,636,361
Expenses 2024
$5,292,002

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U31
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 26732

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO ADVANCE ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION BY CONSTRUCTING AND OPERATING THE SOAR TELESCOPE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY.

  • OPERATION OF ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH FACILITY- 4.2 METER TELESCOPE.

    Expenses $4,644,330 · Revenue $3,571,882

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.

  • Dr Nicole Van Der Bliek

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Alberto Roderiguez Ardila

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Nicholas Law

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Katia Cunha

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Charles R Evans

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Douglas A Gage

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Stephen R Heathcote

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Nicholas Moskovitz

    DIRECTOR (THRU 2/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Alexandre S Oliveira

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Stephen E Zepf

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Jonathan Elias

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU 09/30/24)

    Total calculated
    $224,008
    From this org
    $185,511
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,497
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,860
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $6,651
    Deferred
    $18,462
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,035
    Filer's total
    $224,008
  • Cesar Briceno

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AS OF 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $152,680
    From this org
    $138,471
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,209
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,794
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $677
    Deferred
    $13,645
    Nontaxable benefits
    $564
    Filer's total
    $152,680
  • Marcela Urquieta

    SECRETARY

    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
    $3,636,361
    Expenses
    $5,292,002
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,363,516
    Expenses
    $4,425,676
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,219,134
    Expenses
    $4,261,472
    Contributions
    $1,002,696
    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
    $3,040,536
    Expenses
    $3,441,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,193,292
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,948,166
    Expenses
    $3,206,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,700,628
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,182,473
    Expenses
    $985,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,576,021
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $870,667
    Expenses
    $1,953,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,009,419
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $823,815
    Expenses
    $2,036,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,210,832
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $799,195
    Expenses
    $1,299,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,637,079
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $773,798
    Expenses
    $1,160,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,700,092
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $738,997
    Expenses
    $1,323,402
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,113,207
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $729,560
    Expenses
    $1,248,653
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,844,360
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,278,985
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,850,139

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.