Soldner Center For The Arts and Innovation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871144373
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Aspen, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9703890433
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,475
- Expenses
- $40,954
- Assets
- $164,338
- Liabilities
- $3,249
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Soldner (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Soldner (Executive Director)
- Jan Hartzler Buerge (Secretary)
- Lonnie Buerge (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Soldner Center is dedicated to the Soldner legacy of transformative experience by encouraging curiosity, creativity and innovation through integration of the arts. alternative architecture, the natural world
What it reported doing in 2025
The Soldner Center is restoring a historic building and currentlyoffers a limited number of tours and programs by carryingon the legacy of Paul and Ginny Soldner.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.6%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 51.9%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 72%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.01; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -87.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 80.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 97.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.6% of revenue deployed · 51.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.