Brewster Conservation Trust

Analysis

Brewster Conservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Brewster, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1983, 43 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, Brewster Conservation Trust reported income of $1.7m and spending of $396k, leaving 77% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.7m (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 600%. Over the whole period it spent 27% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Brewster Conservation Trust sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ($1.7m), Wetland Trust ($1.7m) and Western Watersheds Project Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $188k. At year end it held assets of $29.5m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $28.3m. It reported 6 employees.