Mensa Education and Research Foundation

Analysis

Mensa Education and Research Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Hurst, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, 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 March 2023, Mensa Education and Research Foundation reported income of $1.6m and spending of $994k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.6m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Mensa Education and Research Foundation sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Clairvaux Institute ($1.6m), USA 250 ($1.6m) and Burmese American Initiative Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% and program service revenue 5.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $5.3m.