Marmarth Research Foundation

Analysis

Marmarth Research Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Marmarth, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover science and technology, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, Marmarth Research Foundation reported income of $283k and spending of $36k, leaving 87% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $110k to $283k (+158%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 197%. Over the whole period it spent 25% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Marmarth Research Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 55th percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bee Cave Arts Foundation ($283k), Paleocultural Research Group ($283k) and Redwood Discovery Museum ($283k).

At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.5m.