Colorado · Nonprofit
MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC
MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,889 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,825). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $992k
What Mountains and Plains Institute for Lifelong Learning and Service Inc does
Mission
The Mountains and Plains Institute for Lifelong Learning and Service is a non-profit corporation committed to providing high quality and affordable educational courses, travel, and service learning opportunities for adults. We believe that learning and giving back to others is a lifelong process and discovering new ideas, sharing challenges and experiences is the basis of lifelong rewards. We will partner and work with other non-profit organizations and educational institutions to provide the educational and service experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The San Benito Health Program supports community health workers for 25 rural communities in the Peten region of Northern Guatemala. The core health team, comprised of three full time advanced promotores and an accountant, maintains a clinic in the central area of the region to support the regional network of health workers and to provide clinical services to 10 to 15 patients each day. The clinic and rural communities provide primary health care services to 6500 people each year including women's health care, prenatal care, common childhood illnesses, nutrition and oral health. As well they provide consistent year round services to patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma. In 2025, over 4,000 general health clients were served.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNational park boundaries have separated local people from wildlife, both physically and psychologically, to the extent that human communities no longer know how to coexist with wildlife and do not perceive any benefit of protecting wild animals. This growing divide threatens the lives of humans and wildlife species, particularly elephants. The goal of our Ruaha National Park, Tanzania visitation program is to begin repairing the disconnect between humans and wildlife, by offering local people the opportunity to directly benefit from living near wildlife in the most intuitive and perhaps meaningful way possible: through personal experience. This program increases peoples' opportunities to enjoy positive experiences with wild animals, and has begun a foundation of support for wildlife conservation among local people. Over 1,100 individuals were served in 2025 in visitations, and nearly 700 local residents attended 15 educational movie nights in 14 villages. Other projects included erecting and maintaining 8 farm based bee hive fences, and introducing sustainable poultry farms.
$49,673 spent$49,673 earned by the program4% of program spendingEducational Travel Programs are provided in association with Elderhostel Inc., DBA Road Scholar a non-profit organization. In 2025, 315 individuals participated in 14 programs located across Colorado and Eastern Utah.
$1,273,387 spentof which $500,000 as grants$950,002 earned by the program96% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,323,060.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.0M (−23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 26% · 2021 7% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% · 2024 5% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $17k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE 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
MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC's revenue fell 48% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $676k on record.
- Department of the Interior$676k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC?
- MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,889 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,825). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $57,889 in grants to MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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