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ELEVATE USA

EIN 46-3637392 LAKEWOOD, CO

Revenue 2024
$2,780,741
Expenses 2024
$2,482,886

Program services were 79.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
1200
Street
18475 W COLFAX AVE STE 132

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

BUILDING LONG-TERM, LIFE-CHANGING RELATIONSHIPS WITH URBAN YOUTH, EQUIPPING THEM TO THRIVE AND CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITY.

  • ELEVATE USA IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WHICH LAUNCHES, AND SUPPORTS A NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS (AFFILIATES). ELEVATE AFFILIATES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE ELEVATE MISSION AND MODEL IN THEIR CITY. ELEVATE USA TRAINS AND EQUIPS THE AFFILIATE'S EXECUTIVES, PROGRAM STAFF AND BOARD MEMBERS AND ALSO PROVIDES PROGRAM MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION FOR THE NETWORK. THE ELEVATE PROGRAM SERVES OVER 12,000 STUDENTS IN 20 CITIES ACROSS THE NATION.

    Expenses $1,971,129 · Grants $498,795 · Revenue $88,088

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.

  • KEVIN BYERLEY

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $123,450
    From this org
    $116,163
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,287
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOHN OLIVER

    COO

    Total calculated
    $139,477
    From this org
    $131,945
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,532
    Hours/week
    40

  • RHONDA RICHMOND

    CHIEF PROGRA

    Total calculated
    $113,584
    From this org
    $110,130
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,454
    Hours/week
    40

  • RICHARD SPECK

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $85,565
    From this org
    $83,038
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,527
    Hours/week
    40

  • DR ROBERT GRIFFITH

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JON JAY SEAL

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SHAWN MCLAUGHLIN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CELSO WHITE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DEBBI SPECK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $28,746
    From this org
    $28,746
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CHAZ MUELLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAY CLEARY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARYDEL HARRIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DARREN DRAGOVICH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LYNN COOK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ZKE ZIMMERMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINE BESS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARK WARD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SCOTT COUSINO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MYRON LIZER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,780,741
    Expenses
    $2,482,886
    Contributions
    $2,660,647
    Grants paid
    $498,795
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,132,106
    Expenses
    $2,694,390
    Contributions
    $2,094,109
    Grants paid
    $541,449
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,389,198
    Expenses
    $2,058,873
    Contributions
    $2,370,737
    Grants paid
    $443,086

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
    $1,320,515
    Expenses
    $1,029,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,130,390

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $850,872
    Expenses
    $743,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,245,716

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $928,249
    Expenses
    $893,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $741,872

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $689,427
    Expenses
    $970,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $708,836

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $814,003
    Expenses
    $989,841
    Assets (EOY)
    $884,096

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,123,697
    Expenses
    $615,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,115,601

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $597,060
    Expenses
    $464,610
    Assets (EOY)
    $532,625

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $554,514
    Expenses
    $208,154
    Assets (EOY)
    $379,082

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

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.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.