Truckee Trails Foundation

Analysis

Truckee Trails Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Truckee, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Truckee Trails Foundation reported income of $480k and spending of $577k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $254k to $480k (+89%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Truckee Trails Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserv ($480k), Friends of the Rail Park ($480k) and Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art ($480k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $77k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $217k. At year end it held assets of $336k against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $322k. It reported 16 employees.