Maryland · Nonprofit
MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC
MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($48,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Mountainside Education and Enrichment Inc does
Mission
The mission of mountainside education and enrichment is to offer both children and adults educational and enriching activities focused on the environment, agriculture, wetland stewardship, best land practices, and methods to develop renewable and sustainable energy systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Environmental education - mountainside education and enrichment works with k-12 schools in frederick and montgomery counties, as well as other locations in the metropolitan washington and baltimore region. Mee's variety of educational and enriching programs includes hands-on exploratory learning and collaboration. In-class and on-site programs are offered.
$57,997 spent63% of program spendingLunch out of landfills - mountainside education and enrichment helps and supports local school districts and individual schools begin a food composting program to help reduce food waste. Mee trains staff and students on how to begin a program, and coordinates with local vendors.
$33,663 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,660.
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 2023 to 2024, from $119k to $87k (−26%).
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.
47% of MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Alyssa Wiens
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT 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
MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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 MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT 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 Maryland
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 MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT 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 MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC?
- MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($48,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $56,000 in grants to MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC?
- WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAINSIDE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 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