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PROTECT OUR WINTERS

EIN 20-8474909 BOULDER, CO

Revenue 2024
$6,668,021
Expenses 2024
$5,867,570

Program services were 71.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C20
Classification
1200
Street
1919 14TH ST STE 700

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).

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.

  • ERIN SPRAGUE

    CEO (AS OF 01/16/24)

    Total calculated
    $244,185
    From this org
    $239,602
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,583
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $239,602
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,583
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $244,185

  • TOD FRANCIS

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • JIM MORRISON

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEREMY JONES

    PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • CONRAD ANKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK CRAWFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSICA DIGGINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHIL HENDERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HILARY HUTCHESON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLOTTE TRACY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TORREY UDALL

    INTERIM CEO (THRU 01/16/24)

    Total calculated
    $109,551
    From this org
    $101,830
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,721
    Hours/week
    40

  • RYAN LAEMEL

    COO (AS OF 07/24)

    Total calculated
    $90,422
    From this org
    $79,340
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,082
    Hours/week
    40

  • KURT ACHTENHAGEN

    TREASURER (AS OF 3/13/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • DANIEL STILES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CONSUELO GONZALES

    VP DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $137,314
    From this org
    $134,842
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,472
    Hours/week
    40

  • LEIGH CAPOZZI

    VP MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $116,529
    From this org
    $109,265
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,264
    Hours/week
    40

  • BEN GUBITS

    VP CAMPAIGNS

    Total calculated
    $122,200
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,200
    Hours/week
    40

  • JACOB BLACK

    SR DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $117,231
    From this org
    $106,008
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,223
    Hours/week
    40

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 — 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
    $6,668,021
    Expenses
    $5,867,570
    Contributions
    $6,183,098
    Grants paid
    $778,519
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,329,663
    Expenses
    $5,928,412
    Contributions
    $6,116,902
    Grants paid
    $777,217
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,599,185
    Expenses
    $5,972,275
    Contributions
    $6,406,034
    Grants paid
    $641,560

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.

Grants made

  • PROTECT OUR WINTERS ACTION FUND

    $400,000

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH

    $150,000

    2023 FILM GRANT "CHASING WASHBURN"

  • CRUX ACADEMY

    $50,000

    2022 ADVENTURE & ADVOCACY

  • NAVAJO N8V CONSULTING

    $40,000

    2024 ADVOCACY AND ALLIANCE GRANT

  • FULL CIRCLE EXPEDITIONS

    $40,000

    2022 ADVENTURE & ADVOCACY

  • 37 LAINES LLC

    $40,000

    2022 ADVENTURE & ADVOCACY

  • NOVA UKRAINE

    $25,000

    2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • NATIVES OUTDOORS

    $25,000

    2022 ADVENTURE & ADVOCACY

  • DAN HOLZ PHOTOGRAPHY

    $25,000

    2022 ADVENTURE & ADVOCACY

  • ASU

    $22,075

    2022 MAPPING OUTREACH

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2022 return

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • CAR DONATIONS FOR MY CAUSE LLC

    $1,765 raised

    2023 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $1,412 to charity

  • CAR DONATIONS FOR MY CAUSE LLC

    $1,200 raised

    2022 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $960 to charity

  • CAR DONATIONS FOR MY CAUSE LLC

    $470 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $376 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.