Mountain Communities Supporting Education

Analysis

Mountain Communities Supporting Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Londonderry, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Mountain Communities Supporting Education reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.7m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $813k to $1.8m (+122%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mountain Communities Supporting Education sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Riverwoods Christian Center ($1.8m), Infant Toddler Family Day Care of Northern Virginia Inc ($1.8m) and Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Center ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 7.6% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $77k (4.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $608k. At year end it held assets of $763k against liabilities of $128k, net assets of $635k. It reported 22 employees.