High Plains Foundation

Analysis

High Plains Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Loveland, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, High Plains Foundation reported income of $273k and spending of $135k, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $419k to $273k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 88%. Over the whole period it spent 37% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, High Plains Foundation sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greenspace the Cambria Land Trust ($272k), Oregon Solar Energy Education Fund ($273k) and Friends of Plumas Wilderness ($272k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% of the total. At year end it held assets of $8.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $8.5m.