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INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE

EIN 84-0990300 DENVER, CO

Revenue 2024
$2,298,705
Expenses 2024
$2,287,154

Program services were 86.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W00F
Classification
1000
Street
727 E 16TH AVE

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.

  • DEBORAH DONNER

    BOARD OF TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DICK WADHAMS

    BOARD OF TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHERINE SHOPNECK

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSEPH SMITH

    BOARD OF TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK HILLMAN

    BOARD OF TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE ROSEN

    BOARD OF TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON C CALDARA

    PRESIDENT OF II

    Total calculated
    $220,539
    From this org
    $205,689
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,850
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,689
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,850
    Filer's total
    $220,539

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
    $2,298,705
    Expenses
    $2,287,154
    Contributions
    $2,045,374
    Grants paid
    $100,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,644,899
    Expenses
    $2,746,053
    Contributions
    $3,476,487
    Grants paid
    $303,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,977,476
    Expenses
    $2,713,541
    Contributions
    $3,882,611
    Grants paid
    $451,500

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

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

Grants made

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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 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.