Mountain Studies Institute Inc

Analysis

Mountain Studies Institute Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Durango, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2003, 23 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, Mountain Studies Institute Inc reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $1.6m (+3.1%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Mountain Studies Institute Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Clean Energy States Alliance Inc ($1.6m), Save the Harbor Save the Bay Inc Boston Fish Pier ($1.6m) and Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% and program service revenue 30% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $850k. At year end it held assets of $782k against liabilities of $498k, net assets of $284k. It reported 29 employees.