Dover Land Conservation Trust

Analysis

Dover Land Conservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Dover, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1965, 61 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, Dover Land Conservation Trust reported income of $293k and spending of $146k, leaving 50% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $311k to $293k (-5.7%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 516%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Dover Land Conservation Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Project Big Wood a Nonprofit Corporation ($293k), Big Island Resource Conservation and Development Council ($294k) and Bay County Conservancy Inc ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $14k (9.5% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $8,000, net assets of $2.3m.