Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc

Analysis

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Belmont, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1996, 30 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, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.4m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $185k to $1.3m (+613%), an average of +63% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 205%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Land Trust of Virginia Inc ($1.3m), Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation ($1.3m) and Rooted Wi Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. At year end it held assets of $773k against liabilities of $3,150, net assets of $769k.