Mount Pisgah Arboretum

Analysis

Mount Pisgah Arboretum is a registered charity in United States, based in Eugene, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mount Pisgah Arboretum reported income of $1.1m and spending of $793k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $545k to $1.1m (+105%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Mount Pisgah Arboretum sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Inc ($1.1m), High Plains Environmental Center ($1.1m) and Clean Ocean Action Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $79k (10.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $378k. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $115k, net assets of $2.3m. It reported 18 employees.