Old Pueblo Lapidary Club Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Primary purpose is to teach members techniques and safety practices for Lapidary and Faceting and Silversmith. Students are taught how to cut and shape and polish minerals into decorative pieces. Using these pieces students are taught how to make jeweler and other items using silversmith and casting techniques. For gem stones students are taught how to design and cut the gem stones for use in jewelry making.
- Income
- $56,664
- Spending
- $44,010
- Reserves
- 56.7 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- other income, 92%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $26,142 spent. 1. Lapidary training teaches students the techniques and safety practices needed to cut and shape and polish and finish stones minerals into decorative or functional pieces. Instruction covers material identification and tool selection and maintenance. Modules emphasize surface preparation and grinding sequences and sanding grits and polishing compounds. 365 member's benefited. 2.Faceting training focuses on the precise cutting and indexing and polishing of gemstone facets to produce well proportioned and optically excellent stones. The course combines theory (optics, gem material properties, facet design) with hands on instruction using faceting machines and laps and DOP systems and and polishing compounds. 100 members benefited. 3. Silversmith training teaches the skills to design and shape and join and texture and cast and finish silver into wearable and decorative objects. The course blends metalworking fundamentals and tool use and casting techniques and finishing techniques with hands on projects that build from basic forms to more complex pieces. 80 members benefited.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since March 1975.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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