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THE ASPEN GROUP

THE ASPEN GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being CARILION MEDICAL CENTER ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$236k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$240k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What The Aspen Group does

Mission

The Aspen Group is a non-partisan, by invitation only, healthcare forum. Our members, with a track record of leadership in both the public and private sectors, share ideas, make recommendations, and serve as a resource to policy makers, with the goal of making u.s. Healthcare more patient centered, accessible, and equitable.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Aspen Group makes recommendations, shares ideas, and serves as a resource to policy makers, with the goal of making u.s. Healthcare more patient centered, accessible, and equitable.

    $294,562 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $294,562.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($320k) Expenses 100 ($312k) Net assets 100 ($201k)2018 Revenue 34 ($108k) Expenses 44 ($139k) Net assets 85 ($171k)2019 Revenue 23 ($72k) Expenses 44 ($136k) Net assets 53 ($106k)2020 Revenue 3 ($10k) Expenses 23 ($71k) Net assets 22 ($45k)2021 Revenue 15 ($48k) Expenses 22 ($69k) Net assets 12 ($24k)2022 Revenue 116 ($371k) Expenses 73 ($226k) Net assets 83 ($168k)2023 Revenue 105 ($336k) Expenses 91 ($285k) Net assets 109 ($219k)2024 Revenue 117 ($374k) Expenses 93 ($289k) Net assets 151 ($304k)2025 Revenue 74 ($236k) Expenses 96 ($299k) Net assets 119 ($240k)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (96)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $29k to $250k (+767%).

$276k
$174k
$155k
$46k
$29k
$250k
$297k
$304k
$247k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE ASPEN GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
−$31k
’18
−$64k
’19
−$61k
’20
−$21k
’21
$144k
’22
$51k
’23
$85k
’24
−$64k
’25
9.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed33333554
Joined·+0+0+2·+2+0+0
No longer listed·002·001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE ASPEN GROUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

THE ASPEN GROUP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE ASPEN GROUP is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding THE ASPEN GROUP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $151k on record.

State$151k
Top programs
  • CORP. FRANCHISE TAX$151k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like THE ASPEN GROUP

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

58%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE ASPEN GROUP?
THE ASPEN GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being CARILION MEDICAL CENTER ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE ASPEN GROUP have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to THE ASPEN GROUP.
Who is the largest funder of THE ASPEN GROUP?
CARILION MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE ASPEN GROUP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing