Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve

Analysis

Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Pointe, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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 December 2023, Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve reported income of $101k and spending of $74k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $61k to $101k (+66%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 185%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Full Circle Alliance Inc ($101k), Hartley Mason Reservation ($101k) and Foundation for Enviromental Research ($100k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.3m.