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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by DEGROWTH INSTITUTE.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the return it replaced , filed 14 May 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Listed under a different title

  • Adina Merenlender: TREASURER DIRECTOR then Treasurer
  • Joe Ament: SECRETARY DIRECTOR then Secretary

Totals

Total revenue
$518,865
Total expenses
$65,648
Contributions and grants received
$518,668
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$197
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$453,217
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$453,217
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$63,197
Management and general expenses
$2,451
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$63,197

Program services were 96.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $518,668

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $197 · excluded $197

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $35,625 · program services $35,625

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $16,250 · program services $16,250

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $3,968 · program services $3,968

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $3,708 · program services $2,781 · management and general $927

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $1,351 · program services $1,013 · management and general $338

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $223 · program services $167 · management and general $56

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $292 · program services $219 · management and general $73

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $80 · program services $60 · management and general $20

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $3,040 · program services $2,280 · management and general $760

  • 17 · Travel

    total $131 · program services $98 · management and general $33

  • 24a · Other expenses: Payroll Processing Fee

    total $416 · program services $313 · management and general $103

  • 24b · Other expenses: Supplies

    total $320 · program services $240 · management and general $80

  • 24c · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

    total $244 · program services $183 · management and general $61

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    end of year $452,147

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $1,070

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    end of year $453,217

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to empower the sustainability movement to challenge the need for economic growth. Through education, research, and organizing, we're working to build a more just and ecological economy beyond growth.

  • Our mission is to empower the sustainability movement to challenge the need for economic growth. Through education, research, and organizing, we're working to build a more just and ecological economy beyond growth.

    Expenses $63,197 · Revenue $518,668

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • John Mulrow

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35
  • Joe Ament

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adina Merenlender

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
27 January 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202600289349300400

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