Mountain States Legal Foundation: mission, leadership and finances

What it does

Mountain States Legal Foundation is a nonprofit legal group in Colorado. It handles cases on property rights, free enterprise and regulation, and files briefs.

Mountain States Legal Foundation is listed here in the category "Legal". A listing on 4conservative.com describes an organization; it is not an endorsement of it or of its positions.

History

It was founded in 1977 and James Watt, later Interior Secretary, was its first president.

Mountain States Legal Foundation is a legal organization. It is headquartered in Lakewood, CO. Its IRS tax status is 501(c)(3). Like other organizations in this collection, it is described here from its own published material and from public records, and the facts on this page are limited to what those sources state.

Leadership and funding

It is funded by donations and files a Form 990, shown here.

The IRS figures on this page come from the latest Form 990 filing that ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer lists for the organization, for tax year 2023: total revenue of $3.2 million, total expenses of $4.3 million and total assets of $8.2 million at year end. ProPublica lists the filer as Mountain States Legal Foundation. The figures describe a single tax year and can differ sharply from year to year; check the filing itself and the organization's own site for the current picture.

Where it stands

MSLF supports property rights and limited government.

These summaries reflect the organization's own stated mission and publicly known activities as of the date below; they are neutral descriptions, not evaluations. Related organizations on this site include Pacific Legal Foundation, Southeastern Legal Foundation, Landmark Legal Foundation.