Glacier Institute Inc

Analysis

Glacier Institute Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia FLS, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1985, 41 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, Glacier Institute Inc reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $448k to $1.5m (+235%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 1177%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Glacier Institute Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 85th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Justice Land ($1.5m), Indiana Association of Soil & Water ($1.5m) and Aviation Climate Taskforce Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $680k. At year end it held assets of $846k against liabilities of $960k, net assets of -$114k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.