Michigan Nature Association

Analysis

Michigan Nature Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Okemos, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1963, 63 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 September 2023, Michigan Nature Association reported income of $947k and spending of $1.2m, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $2.0m to $947k (-54%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 88%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Michigan Nature Association sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Flying Deer Nature Center Inc ($946k), Living Water Environmental Foundation ($948k) and Equitable Origin Inc ($946k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% and program service revenue 7.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $524k. At year end it held assets of $22.1m against liabilities of $222k, net assets of $21.9m. It reported 19 employees.