2025-03-11T14:40:13-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 262969004 MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC MOUN 9706822013 155 W Harvard Street Suite 202 Fort Collins CO 80525 William Bertschy President 9706822013 2025-03-11 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Mountains and Plains Institute William J Bertschy 155 W Harvard Street STE 202 Fort Collins CO 80525 1389626 0 X www.mpills.org X 2008 CO The Mountains and Plains Institute for Lifelong Learning and Service is a 501c3 non-profit corporation committed to providing high quality and affordable educational courses, travel, and service learning opportunities for adults. The Institute also supports service projects with focus on health and wildlife conservation activities. In 2024, 17 educational programs were provided serving 345 individuals, led by an additional 11 individuals. Also, 3 service projects provided nearly 7,500 individuals with services. 3 3 3 16 0 0 197669 115160 1013476 1266551 6793 7915 0 0 1217938 1389626 213184 147435 0 0 197576 208491 0 0 0 839721 949124 1250481 1305050 -32543 84576 1092977 1343503 224 12476 1092753 1331027 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. 0 0 69000 15000 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 2024, over 4,000 general health clients were served. 78435 0 100160 National 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 1,000 individuals were served in 2024 in visitations, and nearly 1,100 local residents attended 20 educational movie nights in 16 villages. Other projects included erecting and maintaining 8 farm based bee hive fences, and introducing sustainable poultry farms. 1060245 0 1266551 Educational Travel Programs are provided in association with Elderhostel Inc., DBA Road Scholar a non-profit organization. In 2024, 345 individuals participated in 17 programs located across Colorado and Eastern Utah. 0 0 0 Mountains and Plains Institute was honored to serve as the fiscal sponsor for a UK based charitable project operating in the African country of Malawi. The grant for this came from ZooMiami. The project is The Malawi Bat Conservation Project. 0 0 0 1207680 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 X X William J Bertschy 9706822013 155 W Harvard Street Suite 202 Fort Collins CO 80525 William J Bertschy President 40 X X X 60000 0 0 Gregory Redder Vice President 0.10 X X 0 0 0 Kirk C Fieseler Secretary-Treasurer 0.1 0 X X 0 0 0 60000 0 0 0 0 0 0 Leisure West Tours and Cruises 1266 Strong Street Brighton CO 80601 National Parks of CO Tours 237100 1 0 0 0 0 68720 46440 0 115160 Educational Road Scholar Tours in CO & UT 611710 1266551 1266551 0 0 0 0 0 0 1266551 7915 7915 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1389626 1274466 0 0 0 0 0 0 147435 147435 0 0 60000 0 60000 0 0 0 0 0 133420 133420 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15071 15071 0 0 0 0 0 0 1089 0 1089 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1849 1849 0 0 270 0 270 0 3961 0 3961 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20402 0 20402 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7900 0 7900 0 Educational Tour 908492 908492 0 0 Fees, licenses and Subscriptions 3748 0 3748 0 Supplies 1413 1413 0 0 1305050 1207680 97370 0 23707 4353 269134 192245 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75578 0 75578 75578 724558 1071327 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1092977 1343503 224 12476 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 12476 X 1017399 1267926 75578 75578 -224 -12477 1092753 1331027 1092977 1343503 84576 153698 0 0 0 0 X 1 X 0 0 0 X 94068 89888 219130 197669 115160 715915 157410 724612 1141940 1013476 1266551 4303989 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 251478 814500 1361070 1211145 1381711 5019904 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5019904 12580 8184 8901 6793 7915 44373 0 0 0 0 0 0 12580 8184 8901 6793 7915 44373 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4200 7647 6238 6929 25014 264058 826884 1377618 1224176 1396555 5089291 0.98637 0.98944 0.00872 0.00738 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 - Cash back rewards $6,929.00 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75578 0 0 75578 0 0 0 0 75578 1 Central America and the Caribbean 1 4 Program Services Health services for underserved and impoverished women and children 69000 Sub-Saharan Africa 1 3 Program Services In the Ruaha National Park and neighboring villages, elephant conservation measures to diminish poaching of elephants and protect local village livelihoods. 78435 2 7 147435 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Annual audits by independent auditors Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Available for review by appointment at organization office. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Available by appointment at organization office