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MOUNTAIN STATES POLICY CENTER

EIN 88-2607055 COEUR D ALENE, ID

Revenue 2024
$974,442
Expenses 2024
$795,825

Program services were 71.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W05
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 2639

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

MSPC'S MISSION IS TO EMPOWER THOSE IN THE MOUNTAIN STATES TO SUCCEED THROUGH NON-PARTISAN, QUALITY RESEARCH THAT PROMOTES FREE ENTERPRISE, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND LIMITED GOVERNMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

MOUNTAIN STATES POLICY CENTER IS AN INDEPENDENT THINK TANK THAT BELIEVES IN PROVIDING RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO LAWMAKERS, THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC, BASED ON FACTS NOT EMOTION. HARNESSING THE POWER OF PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES AND VIDEO EVENTS, MSPC BRINGS FORWARD FREE MARKET SOLUTIONS TO OUR REGIONS BIGGEST CHALLENGES AND IS A WATCHDOG TO IMPROVE GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCED 22 MAJOR STUDIES AS WELL AS MORE THAN 600 EDITORIALS ON MAJOR POLICY ISSUES IMPACTING THE REGION. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO HELD TWO MAJOR EDUCATIONAL EVENTS IN COEUR D'ALENE AND BOISE, AS WELL AS SMALLER REGIONAL GATHERINGS IN SPOKANE, MISSOULA, BILLINGS, HELENA, IDAHO FALLS, MERIDIAN AND KALISPELL.

    Expenses $537,186

  • THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED A POLICY MANUAL FOR CITIZENS, LAWMAKERS AND THE MEDIA.

    Expenses $29,404

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Christopher Cargill

    DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $166,420
    From this org
    $163,151
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,269
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,651
    Bonus
    $1,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,269
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $166,420

  • Jason Mercier

    DIRECTOR, VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $139,579
    From this org
    $120,354
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,225
    Hours/week
    40

  • Julie Shiflett

    DIRECTOR, CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Otter

    DIRECTOR, VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Junkermier

    DIRECTOR, TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brittany Gautreau

    DIRECTOR, SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bill Baldwin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bonnie Quinn Clausen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Todd Cranney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elaine Damschen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Denton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dean Haagenson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Timothy Hennessey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Klein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Kristiansen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Patterson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Schoenherr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Russ Stromberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Don Stafford

    DIRECTOR (THRU 06/2024)

    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. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $974,442
    Expenses
    $795,825
    Contributions
    $957,983
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,082,116
    Expenses
    $632,449
    Contributions
    $1,118,311
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $113,729
    Expenses
    $176,114
    Contributions
    $113,647
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.