Moonlight Community Foundation

Analysis

Moonlight Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Big Sky, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2014, 12 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, Moonlight Community Foundation reported income of $1.0m and spending of $851k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $411k to $1.0m (+145%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Moonlight Community Foundation sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cascadia Wildlands ($1.0m), Wilderness Torah ($1.0m) and Heckrodt Wetland Reserve Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.