- Revenue 2024
- $17,124,103
- Expenses 2024
- $10,313,640
Program services were 89.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 1264
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
THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO AID, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY IN FULFILLING ITS EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
-
EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF, OR USE BY, WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY
Expenses $9,274,008
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.
-
PAULA HENDRICKSON
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
RUTH WELCH
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
KATHY LOCKHART
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CAROL RIEGER
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
BRIAN COOPER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHIP CREAGER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
DON FARLOW
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DENISE HALLIGAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TRACY HOART
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEFF HOLWAY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRIAN JOHNSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RON LEACH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RYAN LILES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BILL PADDOCK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARK STEWART
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOANIE TODD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SHELLEY THOMPSON
EXECUTIVE DI
- Total calculated
- $0
- 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, 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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $17,124,103
- Expenses
- $10,313,640
- Contributions
- $15,950,495
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $7,993,272
- Expenses
- $7,168,652
- Contributions
- $6,298,291
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $8,311,644
- Expenses
- $5,272,955
- Contributions
- $7,311,195
- 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
-
2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,742,996
- Expenses
- $4,444,653
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,837,627
-
2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,286,497
- Expenses
- $3,389,913
- Assets (EOY)
- $34,033,644
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,760,406
- Expenses
- $3,215,148
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,153,827
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,679,533
- Expenses
- $5,163,067
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,300,064
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,176,610
- Expenses
- $6,212,800
- Assets (EOY)
- $29,400,965
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
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$1,072,600
2023 EDUCATION
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$280,696
2024 EDUCATION
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$230,000
2024 SCHOLARSHIPS & STUDENT FINANCIAL AID
-
$201,000
2022 EDUCATION
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
$100,000
2022 EDUCATION
-
THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
$100,000
2024 EDUCATION
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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.