Mule Deer Foundation

Analysis

Mule Deer Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Clearfield, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. 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 2022, Mule Deer Foundation reported income of $1.5m and spending of $2.2m, spending 150% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to September 2022, income fell from $16.0m to $1.5m (-91%), an average of -55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income dropped by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Mule Deer Foundation sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Widecast Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network Inc ($1.5m), Seattle Area Feline Rescue ($1.5m) and Beauties and Beasts Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 81% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $107k (4.8% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $5.5m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $4.4m. It reported 38 employees.