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← BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE.

Totals

Total revenue
$5,041,849
Total expenses
$2,470,865
Contributions and grants received
$4,994,610
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$44,409
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$2,830
Total assets, end of year
$3,239,742
Total liabilities, end of year
$5,350
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,234,392
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,367,505
Management and general expenses
$72,080
Fundraising expenses
$31,280
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,367,505

Program services were 95.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Stuart Cowan

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $162,023
    From this org
    $162,023
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,023
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $162,023
  • Tom Chi

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • George Orbelian

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Barbara Merz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
16 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202513209349302501

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