Les Dames D'Aspen
Legal name: Les Dames D'Aspen LTD
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742401288
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Aspen, CO, US
- Phone
- (970) 948-1799
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $147,140
- Expenses
- $152,335
- Assets
- $94,532
- Liabilities
- $19,552
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Christine Gerschel (Pres/Exec. Dir.)
- Billie Pierce Erwin (Vice Pres)
- Nancy Mayer (Vice Pres)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Les Dames d'Aspen, Ltd. is a 501(c)3 organization that supports the arts, scholarships and children's programs in Aspen and Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley.
What it reported doing in 2024
Scholarship of 1500 each were given to 2 deservingstudents pursuing careers in the arts
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.1%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 53.2%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 55.1% of revenue deployed · 53.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.