Dunstable Rural Land Trust

Analysis

Dunstable Rural Land Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Dunstable, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1989, 37 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 July 2024, Dunstable Rural Land Trust reported income of $193k and spending of $109k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2020 to July 2024, income fell from $274k to $193k (-30%), an average of -8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 41% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Dunstable Rural Land Trust sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 57th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rock Hollow Woods Environmental Learning Center ($193k), Project41 ($193k) and Grosse Ile Nature and Land Conservancy Association Inc ($192k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.7m against liabilities of $264k, net assets of $4.4m.