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THE ASPEN EFFECT INC

EIN 82-2911196 CASTLE ROCK, CO

Revenue 2025
$356,070
Expenses 2025
$273,147

Program services were 68.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 798

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 · 2025

Mission

We build resilient, connected families by preventing youth mental health crises and harmful behaviors through mentors, animals, and a healing ranch environment.

  • In 2025, we continued transforming youth mental health with evidence-based principles. At our ranch experiences, youth and parents learned to breathe, connect and heal alongside farm animals and trained, volunteer mentors. Through partnerships with the school district, the sheriffs office and various county agencies, we served over 200 youth with 50 mentors. Our work is backed by a 100% parent referral rate and multiple county awards and grants.

    Expenses $187,951

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JERRY VAN LEUVEN

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $123,416
    From this org
    $99,264
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,152
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lara Wise

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amanda Kearney-Smith

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marty Lassen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie G Crawford

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Ciancone

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erika Masarova

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $356,070
    Expenses
    $273,147
    Contributions
    $356,070
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2025
    Revenue
    $356,070
    Expenses
    $273,147
    Contributions
    $356,070
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $299,171
    Expenses
    $236,873
    Contributions
    $307,354
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $182,740
    Expenses
    $206,855
    Contributions
    $170,482
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $62,678
    Expenses
    $19,363
    Contributions
    $41,178
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Jerry Van Leuven
Mailing address
96 Bell Mountain ParkwayCastle Rock CO 80104
Website
theaspeneffect.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.