Bourne Conservation Trust

Analysis

Bourne Conservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Cataumet, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending April 2024, Bourne Conservation Trust reported income of $279k and spending of $144k, leaving 48% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2024, income fell from $849k to $279k (-67%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 378%. Over the whole period it spent 11% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Bourne Conservation Trust sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lower Rio Grande Valley Nature Center ($279k), Friends of Northern Lake Champlain Inc ($279k) and Connecticut Tree Protective Association Inc ($279k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% of the total. At year end it held assets of $20.4m against liabilities of $696, net assets of $20.4m.