Provincetown Conservation Trust

Analysis

Provincetown Conservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Provincetown, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1980, 46 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, Provincetown Conservation Trust reported income of $56k and spending of $16k, leaving 72% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $14k to $56k (+288%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 119%. Over the whole period it spent 30% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Provincetown Conservation Trust sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 22nd percentile, and in the 31st percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Conference of Latin American Geography Inc ($56k), Edward L Rose Conservancy Inc ($56k) and Citizens Environmental Coalition Educational Fund ($56k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.9m.