Oregon · Nonprofit
MERCURY FREE MINING INC
MERCURY FREE MINING INC (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,049 to it, the largest being GEMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ($132,049). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Mercury Free Mining Inc does
Mission
Mercury Free Mining Inc.'s (mfm's) purpose is to inspire the global jewelry industry to support the development, discovery, and deployment of efficient gold ore concentrators that will effectively replace the use of toxic mercury to capture gold by some 20 million artisanal and small-scale gold miners (asgm) in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committedthat through our efforts, the 100 million people who depend upon asgm can be healthy and prosperous and mercury pollution in our environment will be dramatically reduced.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mfm established its core jewelry industry information program educating the jewelry industry regarding the history and impacts of mercury use in gold mining. Part of this education process has been the highlighting how the jewelry industry can benefit by taking a stand in solidarity with the 20 million artisianal and small-scale gold miners who have no alternatives to the use of mercury in order to make their living as gold miners.
$73,230 spent50% of program spendingMfm finalized a grant agreement with the gemological institute of america (gia), to fund a joint project between mfm and the alliance for responsible mining (arm) to begin gold ore sampling and testing in annanea, peru. Mfm developed a protocol for a first of its kind ore-sample collection to ship the collected ore samples to innovative processors in four countries on three continents, analyze the gold ore samples and the processor's effectiveness, creating a database others can access and benefit from
$73,230 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,460.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $4k (−77%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of MERCURY FREE MINING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Toby Pomeroy
Executive director
Board chair
Mark Hanna
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $22k → $32k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MERCURY FREE MINING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MERCURY FREE MINING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MERCURY FREE MINING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
MERCURY FREE MINING INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MERCURY FREE MINING INC has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MERCURY FREE MINING INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCURY FREE MINING INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCURY FREE MINING INC?
- MERCURY FREE MINING INC (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,049 to it, the largest being GEMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ($132,049). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCURY FREE MINING INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $172,049 in grants to MERCURY FREE MINING INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCURY FREE MINING INC?
- GEMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $132,049 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCURY FREE MINING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing