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COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE

EIN 20-1822172 DENVER, CO

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Revenue 2024
$779,815
Expenses 2024
$822,626

Program services were 84.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C60
Classification
2100
Street
PO BOX 7067

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

TO CONNECT MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO NATURE AND INSPIRE THEM TO PROTECT IT.

  • DURING THE 2024-25 SCHOOL YEAR, COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE: - COLLABORATED WITH 12 EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS - DELIVERED 25 UNIQUE PROGRAMS - SERVED 457 YOUTH ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE - LOGGED 35,851 PROGRAM CONTACT HOURS - RECORDED 93 FIELD DAYS ---------------------------SEE SCHEDULE O ------------------------------

    Expenses $691,625 · Revenue $141,642

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Ford Church

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $107,242
    From this org
    $102,714
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,528
    Hours/week
    40

  • Whitney Bell Haggard

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Candace Richter

    BOARD SECRET

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Schnepel

    BOARD TREASU

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Fay Hartman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Lambert

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Marquez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gabe Pinilla JD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elisha Roberts

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Whitson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phil Wofford

    BOARD MEMBER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $779,815
    Expenses
    $822,626
    Contributions
    $448,947
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $712,575
    Expenses
    $748,371
    Contributions
    $370,023
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $692,538
    Expenses
    $700,348
    Contributions
    $413,663
    Grants paid
    $8,258

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
    $665,055
    Expenses
    $629,722
    Assets (EOY)
    $406,243

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,017
    Expenses
    $438,267
    Assets (EOY)
    $441,560

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $377,499
    Expenses
    $375,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $440,211

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.

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

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 11 November 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.