Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Jan 1974.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
49 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
30 people listed on the 990; $653K paid to officers and key staff.
Peter Waanders’s $255K as President and CEO is at the 93rd percentile of top reported officer pay among 3924 $1–10M arts & culture nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Waanders | $254,971 | $238,152 | $259,553 | $266,176 | $228,349 |
| Ashley Todey | $206,659 | $192,919 | $176,825 | $140,000 | $118,092 |
| Andrea Wallace | $159,428 | $148,693 | $154,471 | $138,500 | $128,662 |
| Michael Aldridge | — | — | $116,348 | — | — |
| Lindsey Fortier | $107,556 | — | — | — | — |
| Katherine Roberts | — | — | — | $102,740 | $102,834 |
| Lindsy Fortier | — | $101,571 | — | — | — |
| Miriam Flores | — | — | — | $90,000 | $74,779 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Teaches fine arts to 1,200 children and adults each year.
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Workshops
In 2020 due to the covid pandemic we had to restructure most of our programming. We offered over 100 workshops, the majority were via a virtual setting. We served close to 1,000 students and offered scholarship assistance to roughly 20% of them.
Services
We provide a dormitory, a cafe, and an art supplies store for our students. We also supply food and housing for our visiting faculty. In addition, we provide an art gallery for our students and faculty to show their artwork. In 2020 the ranch presented our first outdoor sculpture exhibition: sculpturally distanced.
Residency
The ranch is committed to changing lives through art and serving the greater community in the roaring fork valley where we are located. While there are a variety of public programs that take place onsite, the ranch makes an effort to extend its reach beyond the borders of our campus from aspen to glenwood springs and beyond.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2020 990, line by line.
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| Line | FY20 | FY19 | FY18 | FY17 | FY16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of yearLn 1g | $9.1M | $8.6M | $7.4M | $7.8M | $7.2M |
| Given inLn 1b | $108K | $55K | $265K | $181K | $580K |
| SpentLn 1d–1f | $309K | $345K | $162K | $325K | $266K |
| Line | Start FY20 | End FY20 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $855K | $1.5M |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $10.0M | $10.5M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $4.1M | $4.1M |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $16.2M | $16.9M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $310K | $468K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $15.9M | $16.4M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants to domestic individualsLn 2 | $474K | $474K | ||
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $625K | $226K | $222K | $177K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $1.6M | $725K | $777K | $137K |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $25K | $25K | ||
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $193K | $47K | $139K | $7K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $182K | $57K | $106K | $20K |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $5K | $5K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $60K | $60K | ||
| Investment management feesLn 11f | $60K | $60K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $407K | $189K | $215K | $3K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $36K | $33K | $3K | |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $552K | $321K | $184K | $47K |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $86K | $9K | $75K | $2K |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $62K | $56K | $6K | |
| TravelLn 17 | $39K | $29K | $7K | $3K |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $16K | $2K | $14K | |
| InterestLn 20 | $81 | $81 | ||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $292K | $222K | $69K | |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $115K | $115K | ||
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $109K | $65K | $37K | $7K |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $15K | $3K | $11K | $915 |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $5.0M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $403K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 LatestFiled with the IRS Nov 11, 2025 | $7.7M | $7.6M | $131K | $20.4M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Nov 25, 2024 | $7.8M | $6.7M | $1.1M | $18.6M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Oct 31, 2023 | $6.8M | $6.7M | $161K | $16.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Oct 26, 2022 | $7.4M | $5.7M | $1.7M | $18.8M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 ViewingFiled with the IRS Oct 18, 2021 | $4.6M | $5.0M | −$354K | $16.4M | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2020 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $4,637,565 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 22 of 22 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $4,637,565 across 12 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $4,991,894 across 21 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $16,895,499 assets, 17 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $16,427,292 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2020 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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